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BERLIN: Mississippi Blues & Barbecue, July 26 and 27, Kulturbrauerei Kesselhaus

For the last thirteen years the Mississippi Blues Night has had a reputation as part of the Köpenick Jazz and Blues Festival; a show mostly designed for the fans of Old Time Jazz since 1995 that easily...

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Music in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald… by Anthony J. Berret (2013)

The similarities in the plots of many 1920s Broadway shows and Fitzgerald’s short fiction of the time gives way to Anthony Berret’s main thesis of the book at hand: music (jazz, ragtime, musicals and...

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Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture by Phil Ford (2013)

While collecting symptoms of a possible breakdown of society, proof of which can easily be found by simply watching reality TV and Fox News, Phil Ford tries to unveil a whole group of savants who...

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Affirmation and Resistance: The Politics of the Jazz Life … by Alexander J....

Some typical settings of the jazz novel are the nightclub, the practicing room or the studio, since – as the reader assumes correctly – these places are frequented rather often by the protagonist of...

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Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams… by Andrew S. Berish (2012)

Now, here is a really clever idea on how to research a jazz-related topic and not to approach it entirely the academic way. Andrew Berish, assistant Professor of cultural studies at the University of...

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Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films by Sheri Chinen Biesen (2014)

Compared to the total number of film noir productions, those with a jazz soundtrack or jazz music, serving as the dominant sound to accompany the story is rather small. Brass sounds, strings, heavy...

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Jazz in the Time of the Novel. The Temporal Politics of American Race… by...

When modernity with all of its aspects surfaced in the US, a number of innovations in various artistic fields turned up, be it painting, literature or entirely new inventions such as film or jazz. Jazz...

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More Important Than the Music: A History of Jazz Discography by Bruce D....

While most jazz fans will probably own one or maybe two discographies (these books happen to force themselves onto the music collector sooner or later) he may not be aware of the role those volumes...

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On very short notice: Lindy Hop and Swing legend Norma Miller in Berlin

For those of you who will be in Berlin this weekend (February 7 and 8, 2015): Normal Miller, last of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers will hold two very thrilling lectures and talk about the Savoy Ballroom in...

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Civic Jazz. American Music and Kenneth Burke… by Gregory Clark (2015)

As many readers of this site will be familiar with jazz music, fewer will have heard of Kenneth Burke. This new title seeks and finds many parallel aspects and even identifies a number of major...

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Fashion and Jazz. Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation by Alphonso...

It is pleasing to find a new title on jazz as a cultural archive that does put the emphasis on an entirely unusual topic, namely the function, origin and development of a unique way of dressing and –...

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Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form by...

The majority of new books on jazz is concerned with a particular property of jazz music, be it a specific label, a cluster of years, a region or a part of the music that influenced another art form....

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Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960 by...

For the last several years or so, a new trend in some of the published studies on jazz focusing on historical way points surfaced. While just some 15 years ago the usual way of opening, exploring and...

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Call for Papers – Jazz @ 100 – Jazzinstitut Darmstadt (Germany)

With respect to the 1917 recordings of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, the first recording of a jazz tune ever, …

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The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music’s Golden Age by Bill...

There can never be enough praise of the blues, a music that has deeply influenced any kind of Western popular …

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Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs by Martin Torgoff (2017)

That the lifestyle of (mostly) African American jazz artists, unusual  creativity and strange hours somehow went together for some decades, …

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Jazz and Cocktails. Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir by Jans B....

Jazz music, performed on stage in bars, juke joints or jazz clubs in film noir very early held a deeply …

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Jazz as Visual Language: Film, Television and the Dissonant Image by Nicolas...

Fortunately, there is now a growing interest in the relations of jazz to the media; currently the emphasis is on …

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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America by Joel Dinerstein (2017)

While today expressions like “cool,”  “being cool,” “acting cool” or having a “cool” outlook on life are present almost anywhere …

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Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of...

Afro-modernity always had distinctive features that were derived from the politics of African-derived peoples, thus this development was a unique …

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