Artie Shaw

His Life and Music

John White (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2004
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-6915-1 (ISBN)

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As the handsome (and much-married) leader of a series of big bands and small groups in the 1930s and 1940s, clarinetist Artie Shaw achieved measures of fame and fortune that temporarily eclipsed those of his great rival, Benny Goodman. Shaw's five top single recordigs had sold over 65 million copies by 1965; by 1990 his total sales exceeded 100 million records. Yet Shaw was an ambitiously serious and introspective musician. He frequently tired of the music business, often forsaking it for extended periods. He also achieved renown as a writer of fiction. Unlike Goodman, Shaw, now in his 93rd year and the last surviving icon of the Swing Era, has not been well served by jazz writers. In rectifying that omission, the revised edition of this book offers a narrative account and analytical assessment of the life and times of a major figure in American popular music.

John White is Reader in American History at the University of Hull. He is coeditor of Larkin's Jazz (Continuum, 2001).

Preface 1. Perspectives on Swing; 2. Interlude in B Flat: The Search for Identity; 3. Beginning the Beguine: success and Remorse; 4. War and Peace; 5. Cinderella and Other Stories; 6. Concerto for Clarinet: The Artistry of Artie Shaw; 7. 'S. Wonderful: Shaw on Record; Coda: The Best of Intentions

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10	0-8264-6915-9 / 0826469159
ISBN-13	978-0-8264-6915-1 / 9780826469151
Zustand	Neuware