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  • Jazz Internationalism

    Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music

    by John Lowney ...
    Series series New Black Studies Series
    Jazz emerged during the political and social upheaval of world war, communist revolution, Red Scares, and the Black Migration. The tumult bred disagreements about the cultural significance of jazz that concerned both its African American roots and its international appeal. The questions about what was new or even radical about the music initiated debates that writers recapitulated for decades.Jazz ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Writing Beyond Race

    Living Theory and Practice

    by bell hooks ...
    What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination.In the spirit of previous classics like Outlaw Culture and Reel to Real, this new collection of compelling essays interrogates contemporary ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • You'll Know When You Get There

    Herbie Hancock and the Mwandishi Band

    by Bob Gluck ...
    As the 1960s ended, Herbie Hancock embarked on a grand creative experiment. Having just been dismissed from the celebrated Miles Davis Quintet, he set out on the road, playing with his first touring group as a leader until he eventually formed what would become a revolutionary band. Taking the Swahili name Mwandishi, the group would go on to play some of the most innovative music of the 1970s, ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Swing Era

    The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945

    by Gunther Schuller ...
    Series series The ^AHistory of Jazz
    Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat Hentoff called it "a remarkable breakthrough in musical analysis of jazz," and Frank Conroy, in The New York Times Book Review, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Chris Potter Jazz Styles

    by Olegario Diaz ...
    This book is a summary of exercises and jazz improvisation lines designed to improve contemporary jazz style techniques.The book is divided in scale, arpeggios, chromatic exercises and jazz lines phrases from Chris Potter.These exercises should be transposed to all twelve (12) tones, so we can achieve perfect coordination.Major, minor and dominant chords, extended to their highest level, scale ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The problem of the twentieth-century is the problem of the color-line.' Originally published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic study of race, culture, and education at the turn of the twentieth century. With its singular combination of essays, memoir, and fiction, this book vaulted W. E. B. Du Bois to the forefront of American political commentary and civil rights activism. The Souls ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Stephane Grappelli Gypsy Jazz Violin

    by Tim Kliphuis ...
    This book is the first method ever for learning Gypsy Jazz Violin in the style of Stephane Grappelli. Have you, too, often listened to Grappellis solos thinking I wish I could do that, but it is way over my head? Here is the answer. Simple theory, licks and stylistic lessons point you towards your first authentic Gypsy Jazz improvisations, which you can try out with the swinging guitar-bass ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD

  • The Life of Langston Hughes

    Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World

    by Arnold Rampersad ...
    February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. The second volume in this masterful biography finds Hughes rooting himself in Harlem, receiving stimulation from his rich cultural ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Sound of Culture

    Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

    by Louis Chude-Sokei ...
    The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Message to Our Folks

    The Art Ensemble of Chicago

    by Paul Steinbeck ...
    This year marks the golden anniversary of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, the flagship band of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Formed in 1966 and flourishing until 2010, the Art Ensemble distinguished itself by its unique performance practices—members played hundreds of instruments on stage, recited poetry, performed theatrical sketches, and wore face paint, masks, lab ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uptown Conversation

    The New Jazz Studies

    Edited by Robert O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, Farah Jasmine Griffin ...
    Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define—it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Clifford Brown

    The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter

    by Nick Catalano ...
    Although he died in a tragic car accident at twenty-five, Clifford Brown is widely considered one of the most important figures in the history of jazz, a trumpet player who ranks with Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis, and a leading influence on contemporary jazz musicians. Now, in Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter, Nick Catalano gives us the first ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD