Examining the resounding artistry of iconic musicians such as Scott Joplin, Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, and Mahalia Jackson, this work offers an alternative register in which these musicians and composers are heard as public intellectuals, consciously invested in crafting rhetorical projects they knew would influence the public sphere.
African-American Jazz Musicians and Their Music, 1890-1935
by Thomas J. Hennessey
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9780814321799
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: September 1994
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
224 Pages
From Jazz to Swing follows jazz from its beginnings in the regional black musics of the turn of the century in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and the territories that make up the rest of the country.
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