Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

Offers insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story of the music and evaluating its cultural import in the United States. This book contains articles such as Salim Washington's meditation on Charles Mingus and the avant-garde or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns' documentary "Jazz".

• | Author: Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert O'Meally, Farah Jasmine Griffin
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 30, 2004
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780231123501
• | ISBN-10: 0231123507