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The recordings of Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy
Title
The recordings of Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy / George Burrows.
ISBN
9780190948047 (ebook) :
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Also issued in print: 2019.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 13, 2019).
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Summary
This is a study of the recordings of Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy. This all-black band found nationwide fame in the later 1930s and came to exemplify the Kansas City style of jazz through the records they made between 1929 and 1946. That body of work, however, serves to raise fundamental questions about the long-standing relationship between jazz music and the critical discourses about race that shaped it. This text considers how Kirk and his band appropriated musical styles in a way that was akin to the manipulation of masks in black forms of blackface performance: it signified race as much as it subverted racist conceptions of style.
Variant and related titles
Oxford scholarship online.
Other formats
Print version :
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2019
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.
Audience
Specialized.
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