Body And Soul: The Making Of American Modernism - Couverture souple

M. Crunden, Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0465014852 ISBN 13 : 9780465014859

Editeur : Basic Books, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Crunden Robert M

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this book Robert Crunden puts the "jazz" back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term "Jazz Age," we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. In order to correct this imbalance, Crunden re-introduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name as he traces the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New York. While Crunden emphasizes music over literature and the visual arts, he never fails to map the complex cross-currents of literature that passed between jazz musicians and their "Lost Generation" peers, a veritable pageant of the glittering personalities of the day-James Joyce, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robert Crunden was Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. His previous books include Ministers of Reform and American Salons. He died in March 1999.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0465014852
• ISBN 13: 9780465014859
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496