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Jazz in American Culture de Peter Townsend

Jazz in American Culture: British Association for American Studies (Baas) Paperbacks

Autor Peter Townsend
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2000
This work is distinctive in looking at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context and in opening up the subject to the non-specialist. It examines th social and institutional structures that have underpinned the music at particular stages in its history and considers its place as a component of the entertainment industry. It looks at the direct influence of jazz upon other arts and its more indirect influence as a cultural presence and source of meaning. It argues that jazz culture has provided an influential model in relation to a number of issues affecting American art and society including ethnicity, the competing claims of individualism and group identity and freedom and constraint.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781853312045
ISBN-10: 1853312045
Pagini: 193
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seriile British Association for American Studies (Baas) Paperbacks, International Congress and Symposium Series,

Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Peter Townsend is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Music and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield.

Recenzii

It is quite some time since I found a scholarly tract on jazz both so invigoratingly instructive and enjoyable to read...like all really good writers Townsend has the ability to render complex and even daunting material readily accessible, thanks to a lucid style further strengthened by an instinctive eye for sharp detail and apposite quotation. A detailed account of the history and theory of jazz music that is broad and deep but still greatly accessible. ! Townsend's discussion of jazz's influences on writers such as Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Kerouac are enlightening and accessible. Townsend challenges the curious reader to go beyond a traditional understanding of what music is and does and look at it in a broader social context. Townsend's writings on jazz are presented in a different way. He looks at how jazz went beyond music and infiltrated culture. His essays show how jazz is represented in other art forms, including film and literary text such as the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac and Toni Morrison, along with the poetry of Langston Hughes.Townsend also introduces the work of jazz-influenced painters such as Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock and discusses the significance of photography in jazz. An outstanding book! Readable, knowledgeable and insightful. I read it from cover to cover once I started it. -- Dr Tim Wall, University of Central England It is quite some time since I found a scholarly tract on jazz both so invigoratingly instructive and enjoyable to read...like all really good writers Townsend has the ability to render complex and even daunting material readily accessible, thanks to a lucid style further strengthened by an instinctive eye for sharp detail and apposite quotation. A detailed account of the history and theory of jazz music that is broad and deep but still greatly accessible. ! Townsend's discussion of jazz's influences on writers such as Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Kerouac are enlightening and accessible. Townsend challenges the curious reader to go beyond a traditional understanding of what music is and does and look at it in a broader social context. Townsend's writings on jazz are presented in a different way. He looks at how jazz went beyond music and infiltrated culture. His essays show how jazz is represented in other art forms, including film and literary text such as the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac and Toni Morrison, along with the poetry of Langston Hughes.Townsend also introduces the work of jazz-influenced painters such as Stuart Davis and Jackson Pollock and discusses the significance of photography in jazz. An outstanding book! Readable, knowledgeable and insightful. I read it from cover to cover once I started it.