Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History - Hardcover

Walser, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195091728 ISBN 13: 9780195091724

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

An anthology of sixty-two news articles, reviews, program notes, memoirs, and interviews from the twentieth century illuminates the history of jazz and features the thoughts of the great performers on the nature of the music and its controversies. UP.

About this title

Review:

"No other source than Keeping Time gives such a rich choice of material relating to the social, cultural, historical, and economic conditions of jazz."--Peter Winkler, Stony Brook University

"The single most valuable jazz-history resource (print or otherwise) available today."--David Ake, University of Nevada, Reno

"Walser offers a much greater range of ideas and topics and a more solid critical approach [than other collections on jazz]."--Geoffrey Block, University of Puget Sound

"No other source than Keeping Time gives such a rich choice of material relating to the social, cultural, historical, and economic conditions of jazz."--Peter Winkler, Stony Brook University

"The single most valuable jazz-history resource (print or otherwise) available today."--David Ake, University of Nevada, Reno

"Walser offers a much greater range of ideas and topics and a more solid critical approach [than other collections on jazz]."--Geoffrey Block, University of Puget Sound

About the Author:

Robert Walser is Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author ofRunning with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music, and editor ofAmerican Music, he lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195091728
• ISBN 13: 9780195091724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 450