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Book Review

Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film by Kevin Whitehead (2020)

The movies and jazz, two distinct and very creative forms of impressions, have produced quite a few gems, whenever allowed

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Book Review

Stars of Jazz. A Complete History of the Innovative Television Series, 1956-1958 by James A. Harrod (2020)

Between 1956 and 1958, a unique TV show hosted by Bobby Troup (who penned “Route 66”) was aired live from

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Book Review

The Blues Come to Texas. Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick’s Unfinished Book by Alan B. Govenar (ed.) (2019)

In the 1950s and 1960s, any solid university library with a section on folklore, gospel music, American Studies, or African

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Book Review

Art Rebels: Race, Class, and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese by Paul Lopes (2019)

Strongly influenced by Pierre Bourdieu and his concepts, author Paul Lopes, associate professor of sociology at Colgate University, starts an

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Book ReviewJazz Literature

Gettin’ Around: Jazz, Script, Transnationalism by Jürgen E. Grandt (2018)

While several pioneering attempts by scholars of literature and music to prove traces of literature in jazz and vice versa

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Book Review

Anti-Music: Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought Between the Wars by Mark Christian Thompson (2018)

As the existence of jazz in the interwar years was a sensation/historical event/outrage in Germany, many theorists, philosophers, musicologists tried

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