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Jazz in Black and White : race, culture, and identity in the jazz community

Author: Charley Gerard
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Series: Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 46.
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Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an art form belonging exclusively to African Americans? Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles electrified their musical generation - masters such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. The issue of racial identity in jazz music is  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Gerard, Charley.
Jazz in Black and White.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998
(OCoLC)605545373
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Charley Gerard
ISBN: 0313305811 9780313305818 0275961982 9780275961985
OCLC Number: 37426347
Description: xx, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Black music, black identity --
African music, African identity --
Race and religious identity --
Race and jazz communities --
Black music, white identity --
Colorless swing --
Racial identity and three lives --
Racial identity embedded in performance --
The right of swing.
Series Title: Contributions to the study of music and dance, no. 46.
Responsibility: Charley Gerard.

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Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an art form belonging exclusively to African Americans? Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles electrified their musical generation - masters such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. The issue of racial identity in jazz music is the focus of this personal look at the world of jazz music. It is examined in the context of nearly a century of African-American music, its unforgettably talented musicians, and the phenomena - from slavery, to black nationalism, to the Nation of Islam - that have shaped the African-American community as a whole.

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