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Jazz 101 by John Szwed
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786884964Author John SzwedFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed 9780143107965
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $24.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107965Author John SzwedFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John Szwed
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $16.86This ground-breaking biography is as much about Sun Ra's music as it is about his passionate, often wildly unorthodox views on the galaxy, black people and spiritual matters. With the various... -
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture by John Szwed
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers inside and outside the... -
So What: The Life of Miles Davis by John Szwed 9780684859835
Booksplease Price: $29.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684859835Author Professor John SzwedFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Im -
The Man Who Recorded the World: A Biography of Alan Lomax by John Szwed
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different... -
Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed 9780143120735
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $26.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120735Author John SzwedFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed 9780374282240
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $21.50He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary,... -
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith by John Szwed 9781250338105
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.58Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner "The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of... -
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman by Susan Davis 9780252084447
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.62Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France... -
This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture by Iain Anderson
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and... -
Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion by Jason C. Bivins 9780190230913
Booksplease Price: $44.47Spirits Rejoice! takes its name from a record by jazz saxophonist of the mid-1960s, Albert Ayler--later used, with an exclamation point added, by Louis Moholo-Moholo--and is appropriated in Jason... -
Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man by Frank Adams 9780817359591
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank ""Doc"" Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama's, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the... -
Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein by John Corbett
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits,... -
Dirty Jokes and Bawdy Songs: The Uncensored Life of Gershon Legman by Susan Davis 9780252042614
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $92.16Collector of sexual folklore. Cataloger of erotica. Tireless social critic. Gershon Legman's singular, disreputable resume made him a counter-cultural touchstone during his forty-year exile in France... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: $74.82Booksplease Price: $62.01How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,... -
Cajun Breakdown: The Emergence of an American-Made Music by Ryan Andre Brasseaux 9780190628444
Booksplease Price: $58.82In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the... -
The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein
Booksplease Price: $32.38Cool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of... -
People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now! by Ajay Heble 9780822354253
Booksplease Price: $43.19In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The... -
People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now! by Ajay Heble 9780822354086
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $98.22In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The... -
Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton by Graham Lock
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of...