Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White - Couverture rigide

Lees, Gene

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195084489 ISBN 13 : 9780195084481

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Lees Gene

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It was none other than Louis Armstrong who said, `These people who make the restrictions, they don't know nothing about music. It's no crime for cats of any colour to get together and blow.' In Cats of Any Color, Gene Lees takes a long overdue look at the shocking pervasiveness of racism in jazz's past and present - both the white racism that long ghettoized the music and generations of talented black musicians, and what Lees maintains is an increasingly virulent reverse racism aimed at white jazz musicians. In candid interviews, living jazz legends such as Horace Silver, Red Rodney (Charlie Parker's white trumpet player), and Dave Brubeck (part Modoc Indian), step forward and share their thoughts on how racism has affected their lives. At the heart of this book is a passionate plea to recognize jazz not as the sole property of any one group, but as an art form celebrating the human spirit.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In a series of candid interviews with jazz players, composers, and critics, Gene Lees explores racism in the past and present of jazz—both the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and the prejudice that Lees documents of some black musicians against their white counterparts. With subjects ranging from Horace Silver to Dave Brubeck to Red Rodney, and a new introduction analyzing recent developments, Cats of Any Color chronicles jazz as a multiethnic art.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195084489
• ISBN 13: 9780195084481
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 255