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Pages: 692
Authors: Robert O'Meally
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent stateme
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Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: Robert G. O'Meally
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-15 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Finalist, 2023 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, African American Intellect
Jazz in American Culture
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Burton W. Peretti
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-02-01 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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This history of jazz, spanning the twentieth century, is the first to place it within the broad context of American culture. Burton Peretti argues persuasively
Jazz in American Culture
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Peter Townsend
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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A persuasive appreciation of what jazz is and of how it has permeated and enriched the culture of America
Miles Davis and American Culture
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Gerald Lyn Early
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Missouri History Museum

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His music provoked discussion of art versus commerce, the relationship of artist to audience, and the definition of jazz itself. Whether the topic is race, fash