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Di formazione classica e di ascendenza mista (aveva nonni cinesi, svedesi e africano-americani), Charles Mingus è stato uno dei più importanti innovatori musicali del Ventesimo secolo. Compositore, interprete e produttore discografico, la sua celebre e romanzata autobiografia, "Peggio di un bastardo", ha contribuito molto a creare l'immagine di un uomo tormentato e selvaggio: un genio musicale eccentrico e idiosincratico, con un debole per le ...

Arguing that jazz films create images of racial and sexual identity, many of which have become inseparable from popular notions of the music itself, this study explores the fundamental obsessions that American culture has brought to jazz in the cinema.

A most valuable and engrossing book that will surely be read by all those who write about jazz. Fans will also seek it out. It offers a wealth of perspectives, allowing the reader to learn what people in other disciplines have to say about jazz."--Lewis Porter, author, with Michael Ullman, of "Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present

One of the strongest jazz anthologies I have seen. Its focus is original. Jazz in literature has been treated before to some extent, but not in the same fashion, and there is little elsewhere on jazz in dance or jazz and the visual arts."--Lewis Porter, author, with Michael Ullman, of "Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present

The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz.Challenging "official jazz histories, " the contributors to this volume view jazz through the lenses of comparative literature, African American studies, mus...

Looks at how jazz music has actually been heard and felt at different levels of American culture.

“Krin Gabbard is one of the finest stylists writing about jazz today, and Better Git It In Your Soul finds him at the top of his game. The writing is crisp, charming, and funny, a pleasure to read. The author’s love of this immensely rich body of music comes through on every page.”—Thomas Brothers, author of Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism “One of the reasons that the great musician Charles Mingus is not better known is that the raw compl...

Explores this complementary relationship from two angles, psychiatrists who have studied the movies and movies that have depicted psychiatry. This second edition has updated this definitive text with a discussion of new trends in psychoanalytically oriented film theory, and an expanded list of movies is analyzed.

Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between.

Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly performed by African Americans? And why do so many white actors imitate black people when they wish to express strong emotion? As Krin Gabbard brilliantly reveals in Black Magic, we duly recognize the cultural heritage of African Americans in literature, m...