Perception and Prejudice: Race and Politics in the United States

by Mark (Eds.) Peffley and Jon Hurwitz

Book Overview

In this engaging and astute anthology of jazz criticism, Larry Kart casts a wide net. Discussing nearly seventy major jazz figures and many of the music's key stylistic developments, Kart sees jazz as a unique perpetual narrative--one in which musicians, their audiences, and the evolving music itself are intimately intertwined.
Because jazz arose from the collision of specific peoples under particular conditions, says Kart, its development has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300071434
• ISBN13: 9780300071436
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"