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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Guthrie P. RamseyPublisher: 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: 9780520243910ISBN 10: 0520243919 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 28 May 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock ![]() The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsRamsey 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 Author InformationGuthrie 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |