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Blowin’ Hot And Cool : Jazz And Its Critics

Title
- Blowing Hot And Cool
Attribution
John Gennari
Publication Details
Book, University of Chicago Press, 2006
Availability
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(UPPER LEVEL) ML3506 .G46 2006 AVAILABLE
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Description
In the illustrious and richly documented history of American jazz, no figure has been more controversial than the jazz critic. And while the tradition of jazz has been covered from seemingly every angle, nobody has ever turned the pen back on itself to chronicle the many writers who have helped define how we listen to and how we understand jazz. For Gennari, the jazz tradition is not so much a collection of recordings and performances as it is a rancorous debate?the dissonant noise clamoring in response to the sounds of jazz. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Gennari, John
Subject
- Jazz — History and criticism
- Music — Social aspects — United States
Places in this work
- United States.
Contents
- Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz
- "Not only a new art form but a new reason for living"
- "As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm" : hot collecting across the color line
- Hearing the "noisy lostness" : telling the story of jazz
- Writer’s writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism
- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport
- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism
- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell’s obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker
- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents
- Conclusion : change of the century
ISBN
- 0226289222
LCCN
- 2005030539
Open Library ID
- /b/OL3414380M