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Item Details
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THE IMPERFECT ART
REFLECTIONS ON JAZZ AND MODERN CULTURE |
| By: |
Ted Gioia |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£15.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195053435 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195053432 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
9 June, 1988 |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
This stimulating study relates the work of great jazz musicians to subjects such as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, improvization and imperfection, and aesthetics in general. |
| Synopsis: |
This stimulating and perceptive study of jazz relates the work of jazz artists such as Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Lester Young, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman to such subjects as primitivism in the arts, neoclassicism, good and bad taste, improvisation and recordings and the imperfection of art, and aesthetics in general. Students of music and all those interested in jazz |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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