| Series |
Jazz perspectives
Jazz perspectives (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ^A574400
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| Contents |
Hot threshold: a leftist writer and the righteous cause -- Discovering New Orleans style: the writers of the wax wing -- A declaration of independents: noncommercial music and collector discology -- Reviving New Orleans style: what did Bunk and Ory say? -- Jazz schism: the perils of intellectualization -- Let the foul air out: the fun faction asserts itself -- The city that care forgot remembers: the apotheosis of jazz in New Orleans. |
| Abstract |
This book describes how the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style affected the writing of American jazz history. Those who participated in the awakening of American jazz scholarship were partisans of a community of "hot" record collectors. As an international network of these collectors formed between the 1920s and 1934, they provided a mechanism for the circulation of historical information on jazz. This led to the emergence of a jazz literati writing for magazines such as Down Beat, Esquire, the New Republic, and Jazz Information. It was not until later when writers like Charles Edward Smith and William Russell emphasized "New Orleans style" in works such as Jazzmen (1939) and The Jazz Record Book (1942), that jazz was "born in New Orleans." This book traces the conceptualization of jazz history derived from Jazzmen to jazz's ultimate refuge in New Orleans and its integration into the cultures which it celebrated. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-326) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008032083 |
| ISBN | 9780472116751 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0472116754 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780472033218 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0472033212 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
