Blowin' hot and cool

Gennari, John.

Blowin' hot and cool jazz and its critics / [electronic resource] : John Gennari. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006. - xiv, 480 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-444) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Jazz--History and criticism.
Jazz--Social aspects--United States.


Electronic books.

ML3506 / .G46 2006eb

306.4/8425