Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Book Overview

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 improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231123515
• ISBN13: 9780231123518
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher