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The Velvet Lounge. On Late Chicago Jazz.
Gerald Majer
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Description for The Velvet Lounge. On Late Chicago Jazz.
Hardback. Reflects the history of Jazz and explores race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a city. This book conveys the drama and artistry of the music of various artists as well as the personal hardships many of them endured. It explores the music's richness through political, social, and philosophical contexts. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a probing exploration of race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a city. With the instrument of a supple, lyrical prose style, Majer elaborates the book's themes through literary and intellectual forays as carefully constructed and as passionately articulated as a jazz master's solo. Throughout the work, issues of identity ... Read more
Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a probing exploration of race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a city. With the instrument of a supple, lyrical prose style, Majer elaborates the book's themes through literary and intellectual forays as carefully constructed and as passionately articulated as a jazz master's solo. Throughout the work, issues of identity ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136822
SKU
V9780231136822
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About Gerald Majer
Gerald Majer is professor of English at Villa Julie College. His poetry and essays have appeared in a variety of journals including, Callaloo, The Georgia Review, and The Yale Review.
Reviews for The Velvet Lounge. On Late Chicago Jazz.
Interesting descriptions of the jazz scene emerge
most notably in the chapter on the Velvet Lounge. Library Journal His descriptions actually make you want to hear again
or listen to for the first time
the music described.
Ken Waxman jazzword.com A quietly visionary autobiography, the story of a life and of a complex, ugly/beautiful city. Sunday Herald Far closer to capturing the ... Read more
most notably in the chapter on the Velvet Lounge. Library Journal His descriptions actually make you want to hear again
or listen to for the first time
the music described.
Ken Waxman jazzword.com A quietly visionary autobiography, the story of a life and of a complex, ugly/beautiful city. Sunday Herald Far closer to capturing the ... Read more