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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture

Book by Robert G. O'Meally; Columbia University Press, 1998

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African Americans--Music--History And Criticism, Blues (Music)--History And Criticism, Jazz--History And Criticism

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...Henderson, admitted that jazz was the only original American...out its arms not toward the American composers of art music but to ragtime and jazz. 62 Though there were others...I would argue that for most Americans the decisive transitional moment...the cultural significance of jazz could no longer be denied...
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What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists

Book by Eric Porter; University of California Press, 2002

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African American Jazz Musicians, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Jazz--History And Criticism

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over just what jazz was and what it said about American culture. Over the course of the decade, faith in the idea of an identifiable jazz tradition strengthened, but the contours of jazz criticism often mirrored the unsuccessful...
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Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing

Book by David Yaffe; Princeton University Press, 2006

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African American Musicians In Literature, American Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Ellison, Ralph--Knowledge--Jazz, Jazz In Literature, Jazz Musicians In Literature, Jazz Musicians--Biography--History And Criticism, Music And Literature--History--20th Century

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...and was even billed as The Jazz King, his music has no improvisation...no swing. The first black jazz recordings were probably by...Mamie Smith, the first African American singer on record, whose voice...debatable her connection to jazz even was, her backing musicians...
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Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Country Music

Book by Gene Santoro; Oxford University Press, 2004

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Jazz--History And Criticism, Popular Music--United States--History And Criticism

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...brain disputes that jazz was initially an African American creation. But as Marsalis...out over and over, jazz was welcoming, inclusive...cultural site where all Americans could participate...mainstream society, white Americans could flee to it from...and flow that powered American cultural syntheses. Jazz, the theme goes, represents...
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The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Book by Jon Panish; University Press of Mississippi, 1997

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Jazz In Literature, Jazz--Social Aspects--United States, Music--Social Aspects--United States, Race In Literature, United States--Race Relations

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...to a primitivized depiction of the jazz process. However, combined with the portrayals of African American jazz musicians such as the one of Charlie...depiction of the process of creation in jazz is one that requires almost no training...

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Journal Articles on: american jazz

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"Detroit Was Heavy": Modern Jazz, Bebop, and African American Expressive Culture

Journal article by Anthony Macias; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 95, 2010

Subjects:

African American culture--Social aspects, African American music--Social aspects, African Americans--Music, African Americans--Social aspects, Bebop--Social aspects, Detroit, Michigan--History, Jazz music--Social aspects, Jazz--Social aspects

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...social geography of Jazz music, and reveals...facets of African American vernacular culture...declared that African Americans had recreated in...presence of Mexican Americans, and of African American-Mexican-American...in turn nudges Jazz history beyond...finest African American swing orchestras. (70) African Americans made their presence...play the first Jazz concert held at...
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New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History

Journal article by Michael Fitzgerald; ARSC Journal, Vol. 41, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, That's Got 'Em: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman (Biography)--Book reviews

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...Style and the Writing of American Jazz History. by Michael Fitzgerald...the Writing of American Jazz History. By Bruce Boyd...the best known African American performer of his age...readers interested in early jazz. They present new information...
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Following the Traces of Female Desire in Toni Morrison's 'Jazz'

Journal article by Elizabeth M. Cannon; African American Review, Vol. 31, 1997

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African American women--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Jazz (Novel)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jazz music--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Love in literature--Analysis, Sexual excitement--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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...particularly African-American female desire...on narrative. In Jazz, Morrison broadens...sees the African-American novel as the form...the function of jazz in the black community...of the African-American context of jazz and the Harlem of...
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Golden Gray and the Talking Book: Identity as a Site of Artful Construction in Toni Morrison's Jazz

Journal article by Caroline Brown; African American Review, Vol. 36, 2002

Subjects:

African American women authors--Works, African Americans--Portrayals, depictions, etc., American literature--African American authors, Jazz (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jazz music--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Morrison, Toni--Works

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...the era its name. Jazz, with its passion...of the African-American masses. And Morrisons...Baltimore Afro-American, began his review...Big Sea 237) Jazz portrays the Harlem...in Toni Morrisons Jazz." African American Review 31 (1997...
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The Story Must Go on and On: The Fantastic, Narration, and Intertextuality in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Jazz

Journal article by Martha J. Cutter; African American Review, Vol. 34, 2000

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African American women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American literature--African American authors, Beloved (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Intertextuality--Analysis, Jazz (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Morrison, Toni--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...in Toni Morrisons Jazz." Callaloo 18...Beloved." Studies in American Fiction 17 (1989...Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American...in Toni Morrisons Jazz." African American...Postmodern Voices in Jazz." Unflinching Gaze...Morrisons Beloved." American Literature 64 (1992...

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Magazine Articles on: american jazz

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Music Musique: French and American Piano Composition in the Jazz Age

Magazine article by Luke O. Gillespie; American Music Teacher, Vol. 57, August 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Music Musique: French and American Piano Composition in the Jazz Age (Book)--Book reviews

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...Musique: French and American Piano Composition in the Jazz Age. by Luke O. Gillespie...Piano Composition in the Jazz Age, by Barbara Meister...efforts to liberate American music from Europe...contra-distinction to jazz, but can people any...
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So What's American? What's Jazz?

Magazine article by K.C. Patrick; Dance Magazine, Vol. 77, August 2003

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Americans--International aspects, Jazz dance, Jazz music

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So whats American? Whats jazz? by K.C. Patrick An American...Yankee ingenuity." But American national character is far...Its hard to put labels on Americans. If we cannot succinctly define "American," its small wonder that we have difficulty defining jazz dance, a major American art...
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The Invention of American Drama: Looking across the Jazz Age, Three Case Studies Track the Birth of a Legitimate Stage

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 26, December 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Culture Markers Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, The Pulitzer Prize Plays: The First Fifty Years, 1917-1967: A Dramatic Reflection of American Life (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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The Invention of American Drama: Looking across the Jazz Age, Three Case Studies...LOWDOWN: THEATER, JAZZ, AND THE MAKING OF...with its clear African American roots, exacerbated...That the Charleston, jazz music, vaudeville and...
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Blue Spirits Rising: The Re-emergence of the L.A. Jazz Scene

Magazine article by Michael Datcher; American Visions, Vol. 8, April 1993

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African American musicians--Biography, Jazz music--Personalities, Los Angeles, California--Music, Nightclubs--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...flowering into a West Coast jazz revival. Clubs, cafes and restaurants that offer live jazz are opening throughout the city...people are being exposed to jazz in unprecedented numbers. In...of this indigenous African-American art form. A rebirth that is...
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A Memorial to Jazz

Magazine article by Karen Cossaro; American Visions, Vol. 13, October 1998

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African American musicians--Performances, Jazz music--Performances

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...the entire program. "Lost Jazz Shrines offers us an opportunity...in the care and nurturing of jazz, as well as the people and...breathe life into this great American art form," says Maurine Knighton...s participation in "Lost Jazz Shrines" is Edward "Duke...

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Newspaper Articles on: american jazz

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Adele: Not Just Another Brit Pop Girl Next Door; All That Jazz: Adele Adkins' Style Pays Homage to Classic American Soul Divas

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 25, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Another Brit Pop Girl Next Door; All That Jazz: Adele Adkins Style Pays Homage to Classic American Soul Divas. SHE may soon have a Brit Award...close tohome and impersonating her favourite American jazz vocalists instead. I dont think I sound...
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A Night of Ella and Great American Songs; CULTURE MUSIC Jazz Diary

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 26, 2007

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A Night of Ella and Great American Songs; CULTURE MUSIC Jazz Diary. Byline: Peter Bacon They...century. One of their greatest jazz interpreters was undoubtedly Ella...one of our foremost contemporary jazz singers, Claire Martin. Expect...
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An All-American Tale Age of Jazz Comes Alive in Stories of Two McHenry County Families

Newspaper article by Liz Clemmons; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 1, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

An All-American Tale Age of Jazz Comes Alive in Stories of Two McHenry...Clemmons Daily Herald Correspondent Americans quickened their pace during the 1920s...talking via telephone and dancing to jazz. One small McHenry County town also...
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24seven: Good Food & All That Jazz; Dawn Collinson on an American Classic

Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 18, 2004

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24seven: Good Food All That Jazz; Dawn Collinson on an American Classic. Byline: Dawn Collinson HISTORY is a mystery...which aims to recreate the hedonistic atmosphere of the jazz era, the decadence of a naughty drinking den. ``Escaping...
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'I Am Half American, but Wales Will Always Be My Great Passion' Welsh Jazz Legend Iris Williams Tells Graham Henry about Releasing Her First Album for a Decade - and Why She Hates Being Compared to Shirley Bassey

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 26, 2011

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Bassey, Shirley

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I Am Half American, but Wales Will Always Be My Great Passion Welsh Jazz Legend Iris Williams Tells Graham...Bay rival, Rhydyfelin-born jazz legend Ms Williams claims that...decade performing on the US jazz scene, cruise ships and regularly...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american jazz

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Jazz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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JAZZ the most significant...expression of African-American culture and arguably...of music. Origins of Jazz Jazz developed in the...and Joshua Redman. Jazz has always been a distinctively American idiom, with Europeans...
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Newport Jazz Festival

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL annual summer music...and Mrs. Louis Lorillard and jazz impresario George Wein, the...Davis as well as many other American and European artists. Riots...officially known as the JVC Jazz Festival since 1986; Wein...
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Ellington, Duke

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Kennedy Ellington), 1899 1974, American jazz musician and composer, b. Washington...first professional appearance as a jazz pianist in 1916. By 1918 he had...the most famous figures in American jazz. Ellingtons orchestra, playing...
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Grappelli, StÉphane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...GRAPPELLI, STEPHANE 1908 97, French jazz violinist, b. Paris. Trained at...violinist, he became enamored of American jazz and devoted himself to the idiom...innovative improvisational "hot jazz" as co-leaders of the extremely...
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Davis, Miles

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

DAVIS, MILES 1926 91, American jazz musician, b. Alton, Ill. Rising to prominence with the birth of modern jazz in the mid-1940s, when he was a...Davis became a dominant force in jazz trumpet. He was influential in the...

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