Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies

by Annabeth Albert

Book Overview

In jazz circles, players and listeners with "big ears" hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz. Essays range from a reflection on the female boogie-woogie pianists who played at Caf Society in New York during the 1930s and 1940s to interpretations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343363
• ISBN13: 9780822343363
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"