| Description |
xii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-327) and index. |
| Contents |
Life goes to a jazz party: photography and the politics of swing -- Setting the stage: a tale of two parties -- "Swing, " segregation, and Peterson's Satchelmouth -- Jammin' at Gjon's: Mili's Trio of jazz photo-essays -- Picturing bebop: Dizzy Gillespie and the postwar jazz image -- Dizzy Gillespie, the bebop image, and life -- Jazz seen and unseen: William Gottlieb, bebop, and Down Beat -- Herman Leonard, metronome, and the iconography of jazz -- Jazz man/pop star: the LP, Miles Davis, and the 1950s -- Columbia, the LP, and jazz -- Miles Davis and the art of the album cover -- The package evolves: Porgy and Bess to Someday My Prince Will Come -- Sonny Rollins and the art of the independent record labels -- Jazz west coast: William Claxton and the California image -- Sonny Rollins: way out west -- Selling hard bop: prestige, blue note, and riverside -- Roy Decarava's jazz: fine art, black art, and the 1960s -- Edna Smith, The Family of Man, and The Sweet Flypaper of Life -- A photographer's gallery, Kamoinge workshop, and race in jazz -- The jazz photographs: John Coltrane and The sound I saw -- Coda: dark rooms, open spaces. |
| Subject |
Jazz in art.
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Jazz musicians in art.
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Photography, Artistic -- History -- 20th century.
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Photography -- United States.
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Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz musicians -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9780226098753 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226098753 cloth alkaline paper |
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