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Author : Stephen Feinstein
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598451375
"Readers will learn about a variety of African American jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Herbie Hancock"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Thomas J. Hennessey
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780814321799
Black jazz musicians transformed their art - a series of regional musics - into America's most popular music. From Jazz to Swing examines the historical context of jazz within the changing situation of the African-American community and notes the tensions created by the structures of segregation, stereotypes, and prejudice. Making use of the files of African-American newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender, as well as published and archival oral history interviews, Thomas Hennessey explores the contradictions that musicians often faced as African Americans, as trained professional musicians, and as the products of differing regional experiences. From Jazz to Swing follows jazz from its beginnings in the regional black musics of the turn of the century in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and the territories that make up the rest of the country. Superstars of jazz such as Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, and Duke Ellington come to life, as do James Reese Europe, King Oliver, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, and others.
Author : Joan Cartwright, M.A.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 10,35 MB
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0557060109
Three essays and interviews with photographs by author and musician Joan Cartwright about the creation of blues in America by Africans captured for servitude on Euro-American plantations over a span of 400 years. This book should be read by music students and enthusiasts, alike.
Author : Larry Ross
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN :
This study examines the migration of African American jazz musicians to other parts of the world from 1919 to the present. It provides evidence that African American jazz musicians fared better in the diaspora than they did in America where jazz and its inventors were born. Written by an anthropologist who is also a jazz musician, it provides a treatment of the cultural, historical, artistic, innovative, and aesthetic aspects of the migration of African American jazz musicians to the diaspora.
Author : Vaughn A. Booker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479890804
Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as representatives of African American religion in the twentieth century Beginning in the 1920s, the Jazz Age propelled Black swing artists into national celebrity. Many took on the role of race representatives, and were able to leverage their popularity toward achieving social progress for other African Americans. In Lift Every Voice and Swing, Vaughn A. Booker argues that with the emergence of these popular jazz figures, who came from a culture shaped by Black Protestantism, religious authority for African Americans found a place and spokespeople outside of traditional Afro-Protestant institutions and religious life. Popular Black jazz professionals—such as Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams—inherited religious authority though they were not official religious leaders. Some of these artists put forward a religious culture in the mid-twentieth century by releasing religious recordings and putting on religious concerts, and their work came to be seen as integral to the Black religious ethos. Booker documents this transformative era in religious expression, in which jazz musicians embodied religious beliefs and practices that echoed and diverged from the predominant African American religious culture. He draws on the heretofore unexamined private religious writings of Duke Ellington and Mary Lou Williams, and showcases the careers of female jazz artists alongside those of men, expanding our understanding of African American religious expression and decentering the Black church as the sole concept for understanding Black Protestant religiosity. Featuring gorgeous prose and insightful research, Lift Every Voice and Swing will change the way we understand the connections between jazz music and faith.
Author : Carlotta Hacker
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780606160490
Profiles 13 African American jazz musicians. Outstanding African Americans.
Author : Carlotta Hacker
Publisher : New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780865058187
Up-to-date profiles on;* Louis Armstrong, Trumpet Player* Miles Davis, Composer* Duke Ellington, Bandleader* Billie Holiday, Singer* Thelonious Monk, Composer* Charlie Parker, Saxophone Player* Bessie Smith, Singer* PLUS 6 additional 2-page biographies
Author : Charley Gerard
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1998-03-30
Category : Music
ISBN :
Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form? 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 caught the interest of their musical generation—masters such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Charlie Parker. Whether or not white musicians deserve their secondary status in jazz history, one thing is clear: developments in jazz have been a result of black people's search for a meaningful identity as Americans and members of the African diaspora. Blacks are not alone in being deeply affected by these shifts in African-American racial attitudes and cultural strategies. Historically in closer contact with blacks than nearly any other group of white Americans, white jazz musicians have also felt these shifts. More importantly, their careers and musical interests have been deeply affected by them. The author, an active participant in the jazz world as composer, performer, and author of several books on jazz and Latin music, hopes that this book will encourage jazz lovers to take a rhetoric-free look at the charged issue of race as has affected the world of jazz. A work about the formulation of identity in the face of racial difference, the book considers topics such as the promotion of black Southern culture and inner-city styles like rhythm and blues and rap as a means of achieving black racial solidarity. It discusses the body of music fostered by an identification to Africa, the conversion of black jazz musicians to Islam and other Eastern religions, and the impact of a jazz community united by heroin use. White jazz musicians who identify with black culture in an unsettling form by speaking black dialect and calling themselves African-American is examined, as is the assimilation of jazz into the wider American culture.
Author : Wendie C. Old
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766061426
Describes the life of the jazz pioneer, including his childhood in Back o' Town New Orleans, his incredible career in music, and his four marriages.
Author : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781598451405
"Read about important African American musicians including: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, James Brown, Ray Charles, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, and Prince"--Provided by publisher.