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Blue notes in black and white : photography and jazz
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Title
Blue notes in black and white : photography and jazz / Benjamin Cawthra.
ISBN
9780226098753 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226098753 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 345 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 22, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Life goes to a jazz party: photography and the politics of swing
Setting the stage: a tale of two parties
"Swing," segregation, and Peterson's Satchelmouth
Jammin' at Gjon's: Mili's Trio of jazz photo-essays
Picturing bebop: Dizzy Gillespie and the postwar jazz image
Dizzy Gillespie, the bebop image, and life
Jazz seen and unseen: William Gottlieb, bebop, and down beat
Herman Leonard, metronome, and the iconography of jazz
Jazz man/pop star: the LP, Miles Davis, and the 1950s
Columbia, the LP, and jazz
Miles Davis and the art of the album cover
The package evolves: Porgy and Bess to Someday My Prince Will Come
Sonny Rollins and the art of the independent record labels
Jazz west coast: William Claxton and the California image
Sonny Rollins: way out west
Selling hard bop: prestige, blue note, and riverside
Roy Decarava's jazz: fine art, black art, and the 1960s
Edna Smith, The Family of Man, and The Sweet Flypaper of Life
A photographer's gallery, Kamoinge workshop, and race in jazz
The jazz photographs: John Coltrane and The sound I saw
Coda: dark rooms, open spaces.
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