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Cuttin' Up: How Early Jazz Got America's Ear (Culture America (Paperback))
Court Carney
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Description for Cuttin' Up: How Early Jazz Got America's Ear (Culture America (Paperback))
Paperback. Reveals how the new technologies of mass culture--the phonograph, radio, and film played a key role in accelerating the diffusion of jazz as a modernist art form across the nation's racial divide. Focuses on four cities--New Orleans, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles--to show how each city produced a distinctive style of jazz." Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
The emergence of jazz out of New Orleans is part of the American story, but the creation of this music was more than a regional phenomenon: it also crossed geographical, cultural, and technological lines. Court Carney takes a new look at the spread and acceptance of jazz in America, going beyond the familiar accounts of music historians and documentarians to show how jazz paralleled and propelled the broader changes taking place in America’s economy, society, politics, and culture.
Cuttin’ Up takes readers back to the 1920s and early 1930s to describe how jazz musicians navigated the rocky ... Read more
The emergence of jazz out of New Orleans is part of the American story, but the creation of this music was more than a regional phenomenon: it also crossed geographical, cultural, and technological lines. Court Carney takes a new look at the spread and acceptance of jazz in America, going beyond the familiar accounts of music historians and documentarians to show how jazz paralleled and propelled the broader changes taking place in America’s economy, society, politics, and culture.
Cuttin’ Up takes readers back to the 1920s and early 1930s to describe how jazz musicians navigated the rocky ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700618897
SKU
V9780700618897
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About Court Carney
COURT CARNEY is assistant professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University and was a historical advisor to a forthcoming documentary on Johnny Cash.
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