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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More Important Than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography by Bruce D. Epperson (2013)
While most jazz fans will probably own one or maybe two discographies (these books happen to force themselves onto the
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Jazz in the Time of the Novel. The Temporal Politics of American Race… by Bruce Barnhart (2013)
When modernism with all of its aspects surfaced in the US, a number of innovations in various artistic fields turned
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