Digging :: the Afro-American soul of American classical music /

For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and politic...

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1. Verfasser: Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Schriftenreihe:Music of the African diaspora ; 13.
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Zusammenfassung:For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most important commentators on African American music and culture. In this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collection in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history, musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, people, times, and places he's encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famousMax Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltraneand on those whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionadosAlan Shorte.
Beschreibung:"George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Jacket.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (411 p., [14] p. of plates ).
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes discographies.
ISBN:9780520943094
0520943090
0520257154
9780520257153
1282360868
9781282360860
9786612360862
6612360860

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