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Django : the life and music of a Gypsy legend / Michael Dregni.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML419.R44 D74 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dregni, Michael, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reinhardt, Django, 1910-1953.
- Reinhardt, Django.
- Guitarists--France--Biography.
- Guitarists.
- Jazz musicians--France--Biography.
- Jazz musicians.
- France.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Dregni has penned the first major critical biography of Gypsy legend and guitar icon Django Reinhardt.
- Contents:
- Awakening, 1910-1922
- Panam, 1922-1928
- La musique diabolique, 1926-1928
- Wanderings, 1928-1934
- Le hot, 1934-1935
- Djangology, 1935-1936
- Swing, 1937
- Ruling Britannia, 1938-1939
- Nuages, 1939-1944
- Échoes de France, 1944-1946
- Pilgrimage, 1946-1947
- Schism, 1947-1950
- A new man, 1951-1953
- Afterword: Gypsy Jazz.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 019516752X
- OCLC:
- 54775202
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