The Jazz Scene
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The Jazz Scene

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The Jazz Scene

About this book

From 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the New Statesman on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933 ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led to his writing a critical history, The Jazz Scene (1959). This enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and the twentieth-century arts.'

'All the greats are covered in passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and Sidney Bechet ... Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz scene down to its commercial spine.' Kirkus Reviews

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780571320110
Edition
0
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Jazz Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Abbreviations and Technical Terms
  7. A Note on the Old Money
  8. Introduction to the 1993 Edition
  9. Introduction to the 1989 Edition
  10. Introduction
  11. How to Recognize Jazz
  12. part one: History
  13. part two: Music
  14. part three: Business
  15. part four: People
  16. part five: Selections from Writings  for The New Statesman  and The New York  Review of Books
  17. Appendix 1: The British Jazz Fan, 1958
  18. Appendix 2: Jazz Language
  19. Guide to Further Reading, 1993
  20. Index
  21. Copyright