Tony Whyton

Jazz Icons

Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition

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Produktbeschreibung

Jazz Icons explores the reasons why jazz history is increasingly dependent on the legacies of 'great men'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9780521896450
• ISBN-10: 0521896452
• Artikelnr.: 29297995

Autorenporträt

Tony Whyton is Director of the Salford Music Research Centre at the University of Salford. As Professor of Jazz and Musical Cultures, he co-edits the internationally peer-reviewed Jazz Research Journal and, in 2011, edited the jazz volume of the Ashgate Library of Essays on Popular Music. He is the Project Leader for the HERA-funded Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities programme and author of the forthcoming book Beyond A Love Supreme.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: jazz narratives and sonic icons
1. Jazz icons, heroes and myths
2. Jazz and the disembodied voice
3. Not a wonderful world: Louis Armstrong meets Kenny G.
4. Men can't help acting on impulse!
5. Witnessing and the jazz anecdote
6. Dispelling the myth: essentialist Ellington
7. Birth of the school.