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Highbrow/lowdown : Theater, Jazz, And The Making Of The New Middle Class
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Don’t Deny My Name : Words And Music And The Black Intellectual Tradition

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by Lorenzo Thomas ; edited and with an Introduction by Aldon Lynn NielsenPublication Details
BookUniversity of Michigan Press2008Links
Description
Black musical forms profoundly influenced the work of American poet and leading literary figure Lorenzo Thomas, and he wrote about them with keen insight—and obvious pleasure. This book, begun by Thomas before his death in 2005, collects more than a dozen of his savvy yet engagingly personal essays that probe the links between African American music, literature, and popular culture, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML3479 .T56 2008 AVAILABLE
From Lush To Lively
Moving To Higher Ground : How Jazz Can Change Your Life

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Wynton Marsalis with Geoffrey C. WardPublication Details
BookRandom House2008Description
?In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of America?s greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life?from individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense.? Marsalis shows us how to listen to jazz, and through stories about his life and the lessons he has learned from other music greats, he reveals how the central ideas in jazz can influence the way people think and even how they behave with others, changing self, family, and community for the better. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML3506 .M34 2008 AVAILABLE
Clawing At The Limits Of Cool : Miles Davis, John Coltrane And The Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

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Farah Jasmine Griffin, Salim WashingtonPublication Details
Book1st Thomas Dunne books edThomas Dunne Books2008Links
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Authors Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington examine the profound implications that the Davis/Coltrane collaboration would have for jazz and African American culture, drawing parallels to the changing standards of African American identity with their public personas and private difficulties. Their years together mark a watershed moment, and Clawing at the Limits of Cool draws on both cultural history and precise musical detail to illuminate the importance that their collaboration would have for jazz and American history as a whole. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML3508 .G75 2008 AVAILABLE
Jazz Arranging Techniques : From Quartet To Big Band

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Gary LIndsayPublication Details
BookStaff Art Publishing2005Description
The book, which can be studied either individually or in a classroom environment, includes a CD (Mac/PC) with sixty-one audio examples corresponding to scores in the book and separate files of all the assignments. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) MT73.5 .L56 2005 AVAILABLE
A Trumpet Around The Corner : The Story Of New Orleans Jazz

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Samuel ChartersPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Mississippi2008Description
A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. The book extends the study area of his earlier book Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1957, and breaks new ground with its in-depth discussion of the earliest New Orleans recordings. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML3508.8.N48 C44 2008 AVAILABLE
Subversive Sounds : Race And The Birth Of Jazz In New Orleans

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Charles HerschPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2007Links
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These encounters with other music and other races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played?a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML3508.8.N48 H47 2007 AVAILABLE
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