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The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front de Professor. Don Armstrong

The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front

Autor Professor. Don Armstrong
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 feb 2024
Discover the enthralling world of Ralph J. Gleason, a pioneering music journalist who expanded the possibilities of the newspaper music column, sparked the San Francisco jazz and rock scenes, and co-founded Rolling Stone magazine. Gleason not only reported on but influenced the trajectory of popular music. He alone chronicled the unparalleled evolution of popular music from the 1930s into the 1970s, and while doing so, interviewed and befriended many trailblazers such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Bob Dylan, and the Beatles. A true iconoclast, he dismantled the barriers between popular and highbrow music, and barriers separating the musical genres. He played a crucial role in shaping postwar music criticism by covering all genres and analyzing music's social, political, and historical meanings. This book uncovers never-before-seen letters, anecdotes, family accounts, and exclusive interviews to reveal one of the most intriguing personalities of the 20th century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501366987
ISBN-10: 150136698X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Inquires into how critics develop a set of aesthetic principles and use them to assess the music they write about.

Notă biografică

Don Armstrong is a retired Associate Professor of Architecture from the Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University, USA, where he published academic writings on design pedagogy and African American architecture. He is now a freelance writer and independent scholar, as well as the creator of the website Music Journalism History and Facebook group under the same name, which provides an important forum for leading music journalists, musicians, and others in the music industry.

Cuprins

List of ImagesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Number One Jazz Writer1. The Horseplayer's Son (1917-34) 2. Hot Jazz Off the Record (1934-38) 3. The Politics of Jazz History-Telling (1938-1946) 4. San Francisco (1946-56) 5. Winds of Change (1956-63) 6. An Entertainment of Dissent (1964) 7. The Jazz Liverpool of the West (1965)8. A Sonic High (1965-67) 9. The Rolling Stone Generation (1967-69) 10. We've Had All That (1969-74) 11. Ralph, This is Your City (1974-1975) Conclusion: One Picket Left EndnotesIndex

Recenzii

The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason is a thoughtful celebration and an engagingly detailed reading of the work of one of the great American music journalists. Above all Don Armstrong captures the astonishing energy with which Gleason sought to make sense of the music (and the country) that he loved.
Ralph Gleason was among the most astute and impactful interpreters and mediators of mid-20th century American music, hip to everything from Bunk Johnson and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and the Grateful Dead. In this superb book, Don Armstrong gives Gleason what he deserves, and what we desperately need: a richly detailed chronicle of this singular writer/producer/social activist's career, and a timely argument about the indispensable role such people play in shaping and sustaining our culture and our democracy.