Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image by Nicolas Pillai (2016)
Fortunately, there now is a growing interest in the relations of jazz to the media; currently the emphasis is on
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Jazz and Cocktails. Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir by Jans B. Wager (2017)
Jazz music, performed on stage in bars, juke joints or jazz clubs in film noir very early held a deeply
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Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs by Martin Torgoff (2017)
That the lifestyle of (mostly) African American jazz artists, unusual creativity and strange hours somehow went together for some decades,
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The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music’s Golden Age by Bill Dahl (2016)
There can never be enough praise of the blues, a music that has deeply influenced any kind of Western popular
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Call for Papers – Jazz @ 100 – Jazzinstitut Darmstadt (Germany)
With respect to the 1917 recordings of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, the first recording of a jazz tune ever,
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Watching Jazz. Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen by Björn Heile et al. (eds.) (2016)
The idea that jazz has existed mostly as audio recordings (or audio only) was the basis for the classical jazz
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Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar by Jas Obrecht (2015)
The early blues guitar legends Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Blake, Papa Charlie Jackson, Tampa Red, Sylvester Weaver, Mississippi John Hurt,
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