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Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra
Professor Anna Harwell Celenza
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Description for Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra
hardcover. This book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America. Num Pages: 274 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174 x 18. Weight in Grams: 640.
Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World War I, it quickly became part of the local music culture. In Italy, thanks to the gramophone and radio, many Italian listeners paid little attention to a performer's national and ethnic identity. Nick LaRocca (Italian-American), Gorni Kramer (Italian), the Trio Lescano (Jewish-Dutch), and Louis Armstrong (African-American), to name a few, all found equal footing in the Italian soundscape. The book reveals how Italians made jazz their own, and how, ... Read more
Jazz Italian Style explores a complex era in music history, when politics and popular culture collided with national identity and technology. When jazz arrived in Italy at the conclusion of World War I, it quickly became part of the local music culture. In Italy, thanks to the gramophone and radio, many Italian listeners paid little attention to a performer's national and ethnic identity. Nick LaRocca (Italian-American), Gorni Kramer (Italian), the Trio Lescano (Jewish-Dutch), and Louis Armstrong (African-American), to name a few, all found equal footing in the Italian soundscape. The book reveals how Italians made jazz their own, and how, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
640g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107169777
SKU
V9781107169777
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About Professor Anna Harwell Celenza
Anna Harwell Celenza is the Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University, Washington DC, where she teaches courses in music history, radio journalism and the music industry. She is the author or editor of several scholarly books, and has published numerous articles on composers and musicians from Franz Liszt and Gustav Mahler to Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Louis ... Read more
Reviews for Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra
'... wide-ranging, full of intriguing information, and refreshingly straightforward ... the glory of Celenza's book is the information it offers - subtle illumination of areas of the subject that I was ignorant of, and I am sure my ignorance is not my sole property. And the fruits of her investigation are the substance of this appreciation of her book ... ... Read more