| Description |
1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
African American music reference.
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| Bibliography |
Discography: page 209. |
| Contents |
Jug eyes -- Stitt's time -- Proxima ra -- Monstrosioso -- Batterie -- The Velvet Lounge -- Le serpent qui danse -- Dreaming of Roscoe Mitchell -- Intuitive research beings. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer's life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a probing exploration of race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a city. With the instrument of a supple, lyrical prose style, Majer elaborates the book's themes through literary and intellectual forays as carefully constructed and as passionately articul. |
| Subject |
Jazz -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History and criticism.
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
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Jazz. (OCoLC)fst00982165
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Illinois -- Chicago.
(OCoLC)fst01204048
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Majer, Gerald, 1953- Velvet Lounge. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2005042104 |
| ISBN |
0231510128 (electronic bk.) |
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9780231510127 (electronic bk.) |
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