The answers can be found in The Da Capo Jazz and Blues Lover's Guide to the U.S., an insiders look at all the places where jazz and blues live, from national clubs to unmarked holes in the wall, in twenty-five cities and the Mississippi ...
The Jazz Book: From New Orleans to Jazz Rock and Beyond
Taking their cues from current debates within jazz scholarship, the contributors to this collection open up jazz studies to a transdisciplinarity that is rich in its diversity of approaches, candid in its appraisals of critical worth, ...
"A remarkable variety of voices and perspectives, and yet the overall thrust of the collection-to establish the groundwork on which a field of jazz studies could be founded-is quite clear.Jazz Among the Discourseswill have an obvious impact ...
One of the most popular school jazz resources.
... Arna Bontemps , Aaron Douglas , Rudolph Fisher , Alain Locke , Zora Neale Hurston , among others , some inspired by the new spirit of Negro nationalism aroused by Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association .
Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.
This instructor's edition of a vocabulary textbook for college students, who read at the fifth to eighth grade level, features 25 chapters and teaches 250 basic words.
The collection includes thirty years of Williams's finest pieces taking readers on an engaging tour of the changing jazz world.
Duke's 'Bones: Ellington's Great Trombonists is a fascinating account of the trombone greats who played in Duke's band from 1923--1973---Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Booty Wood, Butter Jackson, Tyree Glenn, etc.---with photos, ...