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Writing Jazz
2025
Overview
Fourteen interviews with distinguished jazz writers
that explore the exciting challenges of writing about
jazz.
Writing Jazz presents interviews with fourteen
distinguished jazz scholars: Whitney Balliett, Bob Blumenthal,
Stanley Crouch, Linda Dahl, Maxine Gordon, Farah Jasmine
Griffin, John Edward Hasse, Willard Jenkins, Hettie Jones,
Robin D. G. Kelley, Laurie Pepper, Tom Piazza, Ricky Riccardi,
and A. B. Spellman. This literary jam session explores the many
challenges and thrills of writing about jazz in various prose
forms, including liner notes, memoirs, biographies, and
critical guides. The distinguished writers interviewed in this
collection obviously share a passion for jazz, and each has
produced a hefty amount of literature that illuminates both the
music and its practitioners. A well-known writer on jazz,
Sascha Feinstein has explored the relationship of jazz and
literature throughout his career, making
Writing Jazz an essential contribution to the field of
jazz-related literature.
Publisher
SUNY Press,State University of New York Press,Excelsior Editions
Subject
/ American Studies : American Studies
/ Cultural Studies : Cultural Studies
/ Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts : Music
/ General Interest : General Interest
/ General principles & musical forms
/ History
/ Jazz
/ LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
/ Literature : Literary Criticism
/ MUSIC
/ MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz
/ Music critics-United States-Interviews
ISBN
9798855801064, 9798855801071
