Blowin' the Blues Away : Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene / Travis A. Jackson.
New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observati...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Music of the African diaspora ;
16. |
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| Summary: | New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin' the Blues Away examines how jazz has thrived in New York following its popular resurgence in the 1980s. Using interviews, in-person observation, and analysis of live and recorded events, ethnomusicologist Travis A. Jackson explores both the ways in which various participants in the New York City jazz scene interpret and evaluate performance, and the criteria on which those interpretations and evaluations are based. Through the notes and words of i. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (318 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520951921 0520951921 0520270444 9780520270442 0520270452 9780520270459 1280492082 9781280492082 9786613587312 6613587311 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |