Jazz Modernism  -  Alfred Appel, Jr.

From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce

KORTE INHOUD

How does the jazz of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of the modern arts between 1920 and 1950? In Jazz Modernism, one of our finest cultural historians provides the answer.

Alfred Appel, author of The Annotated Lolita ("superb . . . full of vigor, gems, and stratagems"--Vladimir Nabokov), compares the layering of sex, vitality, and the vernacular in jazz with the paper collages of Picasso, and the vital mix of high and low culture ...
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2002 Uitgever: Knopf 296 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0394533933 ISBN-13: 9780394533933