What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists

What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
ISBN-10
0520232968
ISBN-13
9780520232969
Category
Music
Pages
441
Language
English
Published
2002-01-31
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
Eric Porter

Description

An intellectual history of jazz traces its evolution through the words of the artists themselves, examining how the musicians actively shaped the institutional structure through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed. Simultaneous.

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