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Book

Blowin' hot and cool : jazz and its critics

Call Number

  • 780.97 G333 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Physical Description

xiv, 480 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz
  • Not only a new art form but a new reason for living
  • As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting
  • Across the color line
  • Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz
  • Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism
  • Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport
  • The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism
  • Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker
  • Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents
  • Conclusion : change of the century.

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