Don Armstrong

The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason

Dispatches from the Front

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Produktbeschreibung

The first overview of music journalist Ralph J. Gleason, and a discussion of in what ways music journalists contribute to the people and music they write about.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501393525
• ISBN-10: 1501393529
• Artikelnr.: 72551638

Autorenporträt

Don Armstrong is a retired Associate Professor of Architecture from the Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science at Tuskegee University, USA, where he published academic writings on design pedagogy and African American architecture. He is now a freelance writer and independent scholar, as well as the creator of the website Music Journalism History and Facebook group under the same name, which provides an important forum for leading music journalists, musicians, and others in the music industry.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Images
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Number One Jazz Writer
1. The Horseplayer's Son (1917-34)
2. Hot Jazz Off the Record (1934-38)
3. The Politics of Jazz History-Telling (1938-1946)
4. San Francisco (1946-56)
5. Winds of Change (1956-63)
6. An Entertainment of Dissent (1964)
7. The Jazz Liverpool of the West (1965)
8. A Sonic High (1965-67)
9. The Rolling Stone Generation (1967-69)
10. We've Had All That (1969-74)
11. Ralph, This is Your City (1974-1975)
Conclusion: One Picket Left
Endnotes
Index