The Jazz Revolution : Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz.
Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country's popular music. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) and the "Lost Gen...
| Основен автор: | Ogren, Kathy J. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Резюме: |
Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country's popular music. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) and the "Lost Generation" (Malcolm Cowley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein), along with many other Americans celebrated it--both as an expression of black culture and as a symbol of rebellion against American society. But an equal number railed against it. Whites were shocked by its raw emotion and sexuality, and blacks conside. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198021872 0198021879 1423736842 9781423736844 9781601298768 1601298765 9780195074796 0195074793 |