Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis - A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography

This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter OneLouis Armstrong: Exuberant Jazz Legend & Complex Cultural Diplomat

Chapter TwoDuke Ellington: Elegant US Jazz Exceptionalist Symbol & Regal Transnational Hetero-Sexual

Chapter ThreeMiles Davis: Jazz, Blues, Rock, Funk, & Hip Hop Border Crosser

Conclusion

About the author

By Aaron Lefkovitz

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Lefkovitz
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2021
• EAN: 9781498567534
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6753-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Miscellaneous; Jazz, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Theory of music & musicology, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Theory of music and musicology, Armstrong;Davis;Ellington;Jazz;Transnational