Representing Jazz

by Krin Gabbard

Book Overview

Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists, filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and photographers. Representing Jazz explores the "other" history of jazz created by these artists, a history that tells us as much about the meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822315947
• ISBN13: 9780822315940
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"