Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets: Cinemajazzamatazz by Morris Holbrook (2011)
One of the arch-enemies of the true arts – commercialism – is at the root of this interesting study of
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Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randy Sandke (2009)
In his highly political book jazz pro Randy Sandke takes a closer look at the stereotypes of both extremist positions
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Jazz Books in the 1990s: An Annotated Bibliography by Janice Leslie Hochstat-Greenberg (2010)
While in the late 1980s the number of publications on jazz rose only slightly, the 1990s saw an enormous increase
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Fortunately, there is an ever-growing number of publications dealing with jazz. The subjects touched reach from new biographies on musicians
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Jazz und seine Musiker im Roman. “Vernacular and Sophisticated” by Alexander Ebert (2009)
The book (originally a dissertation) at hand was designed to identify and explain various aspects of jazz in terms of
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