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Author Gennari, John.

Title Blowin' hot and cool : jazz and its critics / John Gennari.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  781.65 G287b 2006    ---  Available
Description xiv, 480 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-444) and index.
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.
Subject Jazz -- History and criticism.
Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States.
ISBN 0226289222 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226289229 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 288454677
YDXCP 2373091
NZ1 10530038

 
    
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