Gypsy jazz :: in search of Django Reinhardt and the soul of gypsy swing /

Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django....

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1. Verfasser: Dregni, Michael, 1961-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Zusammenfassung:Of all the styles of jazz to emerge in the twentieth century, none is more passionate, more exhilaratingly up-tempo, or more steeped in an outsider tradition than Gypsy Jazz. And there is no one more qualified to write about Gypsy Jazz than Michael Dregni, author of the acclaimed biography, Django. A vagabond music, Gypsy Jazz is played today in French Gypsy bars, Romany encampments, on religious pilgrimages--and increasingly on the world's greatest concert stages. Yet its story has never been told, in part because much of its history is undocumented, either in written form or often even in re.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317), discography (p. 303-308) , and index.
ISBN:9780198042624
0198042620
0195311922
9780195311921
1281341983
9781281341983

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