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Blowin' hot and cool : jazz and its critics / John Gennari.

by Gennari, John.

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University of Chicago Press, 2016, c2006.

Jazz -- History and criticism.

Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States.

Musical criticism -- United States -- History.

9780226289236 (pbk.)

9780226289229 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Blowing hot and cool : jazz and its critics

Jazz and its critics

xiv, 480 pages ; 24 cm.

Originally published in hardcover in 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-444) and index.

Introduction. (Much more than) a few words about jazz -- Not only a new art form but a new reason for living -- As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting across the color line -- Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the Bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion. Change of the century.

Brings to the fore the most vital critics of jazz and the role they have played not only in defining the history of jazz but also in shaping its significance in American culture and life.

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