This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year period, to preserve for...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1985-11-07

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Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1983-04-28

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Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1982-01-14

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This is an abridgement of the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Dred Scott Case, making Fehrenbacher's monumental work available to a wider audience. Although it condenses the original by half, all the chapters and major themes of the larger work have been retained, providing...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1981-04-30

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Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1979-05-17

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Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1977-02-03

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