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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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Blowin' the blues away performance and meaning on the New York jazz scene /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Scenes in the city -- pt. 3. Blowin' the blues away.…”
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Blowin' the blues away performance and meaning on the New York jazz scene /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Scenes in the city -- pt. 3. Blowin' the blues away.…”
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Dancing in your head jazz, blues, rock, and beyond /
Published 1994An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Dancing in your head jazz, blues, rock, and beyond /
Published 1994An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Creating jazz counterpoint : New Orleans, barbershop harmony, and the blues /
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Creating jazz counterpoint : New Orleans, barbershop harmony, and the blues /
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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…A life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W.C. …”
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Shaping Words to Fit the Soul : The Southern Ritual Grounds of Afro-Modernism /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…A life and power far beyond the letter : the Afro-modernism of life and times of Frederick Douglass -- Shaping words to fit the soul : Afro-modernism and the breakdown of communication in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Roll call : Richard Wright's "Long black song" and the betrayal of music -- Blues and the abstract truth : the Southern groove continuum from W.C. …”
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Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Novelty: "Cornet chop suey" (26 February 1926) -- Telling a story: "Big butter and egg man" (16 November 1926) -- Playing the changes: "Potato head blues" (10 May 1927) -- Top notes: "S.O.L. blues"/"Gully low blues" (13-14 May 1927) -- Pretty things: "Savoy blues" (13 December 1927) -- Versatility: "West End blues" (28 June 1928).…”
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Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Novelty: "Cornet chop suey" (26 February 1926) -- Telling a story: "Big butter and egg man" (16 November 1926) -- Playing the changes: "Potato head blues" (10 May 1927) -- Top notes: "S.O.L. blues"/"Gully low blues" (13-14 May 1927) -- Pretty things: "Savoy blues" (13 December 1927) -- Versatility: "West End blues" (28 June 1928).…”
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Kansas City jazz from ragtime to bebop : a history /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Tales from Tom's town -- Carrie's gone to Kansas City -- Get low-down blues -- The territories -- Blue devil blues -- Moten's swing -- Until the real thing comes along -- Roll 'em, Pete -- Hootie blues.…”
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Kansas City jazz from ragtime to bebop : a history /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Tales from Tom's town -- Carrie's gone to Kansas City -- Get low-down blues -- The territories -- Blue devil blues -- Moten's swing -- Until the real thing comes along -- Roll 'em, Pete -- Hootie blues.…”
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I know what I know the music of Charles Mingus /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Central Avenue swing -- New York and the bebop revolution -- Breaking into freedom -- The poetic blues of Mingus -- Triumph : Columbia Records, 1959 -- Into the past, into the future -- Resurgence : the impulse albums -- The 1964 tour -- Falling away -- A slow climb -- Denouement.…”
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I know what I know the music of Charles Mingus /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Central Avenue swing -- New York and the bebop revolution -- Breaking into freedom -- The poetic blues of Mingus -- Triumph : Columbia Records, 1959 -- Into the past, into the future -- Resurgence : the impulse albums -- The 1964 tour -- Falling away -- A slow climb -- Denouement.…”
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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…-- Old-time music in the new electronic era -- When Gennett Records gets the blues -- Yet the music lives on -- Suggested listening : fifty classics by Gennett Records.…”
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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy Gennett Records and the rise of America's musical grassroots /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…-- Old-time music in the new electronic era -- When Gennett Records gets the blues -- Yet the music lives on -- Suggested listening : fifty classics by Gennett Records.…”
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What is this thing called jazz? African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.…”
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What is this thing called jazz? African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.…”
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