Author : Marcela Breton
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Jazz--the music, the look, and the attitude--has fascinated people for most of this century. Hot and Cool takes readers deep into the world of "cool" people and "hot" music with contemporary short stories by some of the world's most celebrated writers exploring the jazz aesthetic.
Author : Nat Shapiro
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486171361
In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030777922X
Evoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an extraordinary child is born an old man, growing younger as the world ages around him. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” a fable of excess and greed, shows two boarding school classmates mired in deception as they make their fortune in gemstones. And in the classic novella “May Day,” debutantes dance the night away as war veterans and socialists clash in the streets of New York. Opening the book is a playful and irreverent set of notes from the author, documenting the real-life pressures and experiences that shaped these stories, from his years at Princeton to his cravings for luxury to the May Day Riots of 1919. Taken as a whole, this collection brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. Its 1922 publication furthered Fitzgerald's reputation as a master storyteller, and its legacy staked his place as the spokesman of an age.
Author : Jessica Herthel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0698176731
The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere "This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. I wish I had had a book like this when I was a kid struggling with gender identity questions. I found it deeply moving in its simplicity and honesty."—Laverne Cox (who plays Sophia in “Orange Is the New Black”) From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way. Jazz's story is based on her real-life experience and she tells it in a simple, clear way that will be appreciated by picture book readers, their parents, and teachers.
Author : Maurice Jackson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 1626165904
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Poems -- Introduction -- 1 Jazz, "Great Black Music," and the Struggle for Racial and Social Equality in Washington, DC -- 2 Seventh Street: Black DC's Musical Mecca -- 3 Washington's Duke Ellington -- 4 Bill Brower: Notes from a Keen Observer and Scene Maker -- 5 Jazz Radio in Washington, DC -- 6 Legislating Jazz -- 7 The Beautiful Struggle: A Look at Women Who Have Helped Shape the DC Jazz Scene -- 8 No Church without a Choir: Howard University and Jazz in Washington, DC -- 9 From Federal City College to UDC: A Retrospective on Washington's Jazz University -- 10 Researching Jazz History in Washington, DC -- List of Contributors -- Photo Credits and Permissions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Author : Lisa Wheeler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152025229
Baby and his family make some jazzy music.
Author : Marshall Winslow Stearns
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1974
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,13 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 125082270X
Before John Was a Jazz Giant is a 2009 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book.
Author : Mario Dunkel
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 22,84 MB
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 3990128957
New Orleans jazz, Dixieland, Chicago jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, and free jazz: up until today, the history of jazz is told as a "tradition" consisting of fixed components including a succession of jazz styles. How did this construction of music history emerge? What were the alternative perspectives? And why did the narrative of a fixed tradition catch on? In this study, Mario Dunkel examines narratives of jazz history from the beginnings of jazz until the late 1950s. According to Dunkel, the jazz tradition is simultaneously an attempt to approach historical reality and the product of competition between different narratives and cultural myths. From the middlebrow culture of the 1920s to the New Deal, the African American civil rights movement and the role of the U.S. in the Cold War, Dunkel shows in detail how the jazz tradition, as a global narrative of the twentieth century, is intertwined with greater social and cultural developments.
Author : Jay Goetting
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0873518322
From the early days through Prohibition and the swing era, then to bebop and beyond, this is the story of jazz music, musicians, and venues in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
