From Jazz to Swing
African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935
In the 1920s, many black regional jazz bands were recorded and became products of the entertainment industry, which was altering the face of America from the handmade, homemade, homemade society of the ninteenth century to the mass-produced, mass-consumed technological culture of the twentieth century. Making use of the files of African American newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender, as well as published and archival oral history interviews, Hennessey explores the contradictions that musicians often faced as African Americans, as trained professional musicians, and as the products of differing regional experiences. F…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8143-2179-9
- EAN: 9780814321799
- Produktnummer: 1388251
- Verlag: Wayne State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
- Seitenangabe: 218 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.1 cm 323 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 323
Über den Autor
Thomas Hennessey is an associate professor at Fayetteville State University in Fayettevilee, North Carolina. He has published several articles on the history of jazz and has been the host-producer of a weekly jazz radio program for more than a decade.
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