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Ragged But Right : Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz
Lynn Abbott
Hardcover - $159.95
A groundbreaking study of "coon songs" and ragtime in black musical comedies, circus sideshows, and tented minstrel shows
Cubano Be, Cubano Bop : One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba
Leonardo Acosta
Hardcover - $49.95
The first history of jazz in Cuba, by acclaimed Cuban musician, musicologist, and writer Leonardo Acosta.
Jazz Cultures
David Andrew Ake
Paperback - $44.95
"Ake blends careful historical research with intelligent textual criticism and sophisticated cultural theory. . . His critiques augment and enhance our understanding and appreciation of great artistry, but they do much more. This is new, imaginative, ...
Low Down : Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood
A. J. Albany
Paperback - $26.95
Written with gritty honesty, "Low Down is an extended improvisation on growing up among jazz royalty, a moving tour through the dope and deviance of the late-1960s and early-1970s jazz scene in Hollywood's underbelly and beyond.
Masters of Jazz Guitar : The Story of the Players and Their Music with CD (Audio)
Charles Alexander
Paperback - $47.95
This handsome book celebrates the lives, work, and far-reaching influences of virtuoso jazz guitarists past and present. Spanning the guitars role in early 1900s music through its impact on swing, bebop, fusion, and beyond, well-rounded profiles and ...
The Miles Davis Reader : Interviews and Features from Downbeat Magazine
Frank Alkyer
Hardcover - $39.95
DownBeat magazine (est. 1939), the bible of "jazz, blues, and beyond," proudly launches the first book in its DownBeat Hall of Fame Series. DownBeat has documented Miles Davis's career like no other journal in the world. From Davis's first DownBeat i ...
Jazz Modernism : From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
Alfred Appel
Paperback - $51.95
How does the jazz of Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of modernist art? In this book, an eminent cultural historian provides the answer and offers a brilliant new way of und ...
Blue Nippon : Authenticating Jazz in Japan
E. Taylor Atkins
Paperback - $51.95
Japan's jazz community -- both musicians and audience -- has been begrudgingly recognized in the United States for its talent, knowledge, and level of appreciation. Underpinning this tentative admiration, however, has been a tacit agreement that, for ...