The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

Author:   Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   17
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9780520243910


Pages:   254
Publication Date:   28 May 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   17
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520243910


ISBN 10:   0520243919
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   28 May 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Cullud Boys with Beards : Serious Black Music and the Art of Bebop 2. Something Else: The Tests and Triumphs of a Modernist 3. Notes and Tones: Black Genius in the Social Order 4. Making the Changes: Jazz Manhood, Bebop Virtuosity, and a New Social Contract 5. Exploding Narratives and Structures in the Art of Bud Powell Coda: Cultural Validation and Requiem for a Heavyweight Notes Selected Bibliography Credits Index

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Ramsey writes with a musician's ear... Full of beauty and that edgy logic. -- John Mole The Times Literary Supplement 20130614 An important, thoughtful work for those wishing to probe beyond cliches. DownBeat 20130901


Ramsey writes with a musician's ear... Full of beauty and that edgy logic. -- John Mole The Times Literary Supplement 20130614 An important, thoughtful work for those wishing to probe beyond cliches. DownBeat 20130901 Equal parts biography, historiography, and music analysis, Ramsey's brilliant study represents a much-needed examination of one of jazz's most influential pianists and artists. Notes 20140901


Ramsey writes with a musician's ear. . . . Full of beauty and that edgy logic. --John Mole The Times Literary Supplement (06/14/2013)


""Ramsey writes with a musician's ear... Full of beauty and that edgy logic."" -- John Mole The Times Literary Supplement ""An important, thoughtful work for those wishing to probe beyond cliches."" DownBeat ""Equal parts biography, historiography, and music analysis, Ramsey's brilliant study represents a much-needed examination of one of jazz's most influential pianists and artists."" Notes


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Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the prize-winning Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (UC Press).

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