Blue Notes in Black and White - Photography and Jazz

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Cawthra is associate professor of history and associate director of the Center for Oral and Public History at California State University! Fullerton. Klappentext Miles Davis, supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday, eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. Blue Notes in Black and White charts the development of jazz photography from the swing era of the 1930s to the rise of black nationalism in the '60s. "In "Blue Notes in Black and White" you sense an author consumed and excited by his subject. He's synthesized loads of the literature and argument around jazz, and he builds particularly on recent works of historiography."--Ben Ratliff "New York Times " Zusammenfassung Miles Davis! supremely cool behind his shades. Billie Holiday! eyes closed and head tilted back in full cry. Blue Notes in Black and White charts the development of jazz photography from the swing era of the 1930s to the rise of black nationalism in the '60s.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Cawthra, Cawthra Benjamin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226100746
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10074-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Jazz, USA, Photography & photographs, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, United States of America, USA, Popular Music, Photography and photographs