1 option
Lonesome roads and streets of dreams : place, mobility, and race in jazz of the 1930s and '40s / Andrew S. Berish.
LIBRA ML3508 .B47 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berish, Andrew S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz musicians--Homes and haunts--United States.
- Jazz musicians.
- Music and race--United States--History--20th century.
- Music and race.
- Big band music--Social aspects.
- Big band music.
- Garber, Jan.
- Barnet, Charlie.
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
- Ellington, Duke.
- Christian, Charlie, 1916-1942.
- Christian, Charlie.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Big band music.
- Physical Description:
- x, 313 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams explores the geography of jazz in 1930s and '40s America. Looking at the touring lives of these musicians and their bands, author Andrew S. Berish showcases the ways musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries and how they found expression for the geographic and racial dynamics that surrounded them through the insistent music they were creating. By examining both the performances and cultural contexts of these leading jazz figures, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing-era jazz-one that highlights a culture particularly preoccupied with place and mobility-but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- I dream of her and Avalon: Jan Garber, sweet jazz, and race at the Casino Ballroom
- From the "make-believe ballroom" to the Meadowbrook Inn: Charlie Barnet and the promise of the road
- A locomotive laboratory of place: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
- Travels with Charlie Christian: between region and nation
- Conclusion: air spaces.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226044941
- 0226044947
- 9780226044958
- 0226044955
- OCLC:
- 748812893
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.