Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

by Brent Hayes Edwards (Author), Farah Jasmine Griffin (Author), RobertGO'meally (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $50.27

  Offers insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story of the music and evaluating its cultural import in the United States. This book contains articles such as Salim Washington's meditation on Charles Mingus and the avant-garde or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns' documentary Jazz .