Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaning by Mark Laver (2015)
Ever wondered why so many products we come across while out shopping are labeled “jazz,” ranging from cereals to beverages,
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Jazz Fiction, Jazz Research – Musing on JAZZ and Related Topics, Popular Culture and Jazz in the Movies
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Art and Jazz since 1920. Exhibition “I Got Rhythm” Stuttgart, Germany, Oct. 10, 2015 – Mar. 6, 2016
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart currently is showing a huge collection of international artists who put their impressions of jazz on canvas.
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Daniel Martin Feige. Philosophie des Jazz (2014) (In German)
Academic writing on music in Germany is a very old and refined art, going back several centuries. Nevertheless, a purely
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Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960 by Andy Fry (2014)
For the last several years or so, a new trend in some of the published studies on jazz focusing on
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Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form by Damon J. Phillips (2013)
The majority of new books on jazz is concerned with a particular property of jazz music, be it a specific
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Fashion and Jazz. Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation by Alphonso McClendon (2015)
It is pleasing to find a new title on jazz as a cultural archive that does put the emphasis on
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Civic Jazz. American Music and Kenneth Burke… by Gregory Clark (2015)
As many readers of this site will be familiar with jazz music, fewer will have heard of Kenneth Burke. This
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