The Imperfect Art

Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture

Ted Gioia (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

1988
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-505343-2 (ISBN)

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This stimulating study relates the work of great jazz musicians to subjects such as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, improvization and imperfection, and aesthetics in general.

This stimulating and perceptive study of jazz relates the work of jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman to such subjects as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, good and bad taste, improvisation and recordings and the imperfection of art, and aesthetics in general. Students of music and all those interested in jazz

About the Author Ted Gioia teaches jazz history and performance at Stanford University. His debut album as a jazz pianist, The End of the Open Road, will be released in Spring 1988.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.8.1988
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 200 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
ISBN-10	0-19-505343-5 / 0195053435
ISBN-13	978-0-19-505343-2 / 9780195053432
Zustand	Neuware