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Cosmic Scholar
The Life and Times of Harry SmithJohn Szwed is the author or editor of nineteen books, including biographies of Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, and Alan Lomax. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and in 2005 was awarded a Grammy for Doctor Jazz, a book included with the album Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax. A former Professor of Anthropology, African American Studies, and Film Studies for 26 years at Yale University, he was also a Professor of Music and Jazz Studies at Columbia University, and served as the Chair of the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Philadelphia with his family.
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Cosmic Scholar
The Life and Times of Harry SmithThe first biography of Harry Smith, the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth-century art and culture.
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Space Is the Place
The Lives and Times of Sun Ra“One of the great jazz biographies.” - Val Wilmer (The Guardian) "Szwed has produced a rare jazz biography-one that takes full account of the history that shaped the music and its central personalities.” - Brent Staples (New York Times) “[Szwed] succeeds in prying open countless enigmas within enigmas, revealing much that has eluded historians until now.” - Stuart Nicholson (Observer) “[An] extraordinary biography.” - Chris Morris (Billboard) “The story of the experimental jazz composer, keyboardist and band leader Sun Ra . . . is told with brilliance and grace by the Yale anthropologist John Szwed in this deeply simpatico new biography. . . . The achievement of this biography is that it carefully articulates such views of life and art at the same time that it provides hard data and analysis to locate Sun Ra's theories in historical context.” - Robert G. O'Meally (Washington Post) “Against the odds, Szwed carves out a central image of Sun Ra as a man whose sincerity was unquestioned, whose heart was pure. Essential reading for the millennium.” - David Toop (Village Voice) “Szwed also makes a strong case for Sun Ra as creative genius.” (Kirkus Reviews) “The book consistently succeeds in making the idiosyncrasies of [Sun Ra] much less strange by placing them within the mainstreams of African American culture. . . . Szwed is especially convincing when he documents the origins of Sonny's unique blend of mysticism, Egyptology, Afrocentrism, and nonsense. . . . Thanks to Sun Ra, and to this extraordinary book by John Szwed, jazz must be conceived as something much richer than an austere art music.” - Krin Gabbard (American Music) “Compelling.” - Lloyd Sachs (Chicago Sun-Times) “A brilliant book, a sprawling, curlicued, swinging account of an extraordinary man's great adventure with a bunch of ideas that made sense to him out of a senseless world.” - Nick Coleman (The Independent) “Szwed has unearthed a treasure trove of Ra data . . . [and ] through extensive personal interviews and archival materials, Szwed fills in the murky blanks of Ra's early years. . . . Szwed's portrait of Ra is both scholarly and affectionate. While many fans would often put brackets around aspects of Ra's persona, perhaps turning a blind eye to his convoluted philosophies or his space gypsy stage shows, Szwed embraces them, contradictions and all.” - John Diliberto (Billboard) “Through deft writing and detailed chronology, Yale professor and music critic Szwed manages to make the seemingly unintelligible, shiny-turbaned pioneer of big-band free jazz more accessible to society at large.” (Publishers Weekly) "Alongside Szwed's absorbing musical chronicle, the biographer tackles the more contentious subject of the vast framework of Sun Ra's poetry, theology, and philosophy, and makes a miraculous effort at synthesizing that massive body of often deliberately contradictory statements and beliefs. . . . While he brings academic rigor to his research, however, he writes with an easy flow and peppers the investigation with many memorable anecdotes recalling Sun Ra's idiosyncrasies. Szwed's book is as absorbing an account of Sun Ra's fascinatingly unorthodox life and times as we are ever likely to see.” - Kenny Mathieson (Scotsman) “Through collating practically everything written or known about his subject, Szwed doesn't diminish the singularity of Ra’s musical achievement, he enhances it. . . . There's an inspirational quality to Szwed's revelations as he demonstrates Ra's commitment to a course that could only be his own, with rewards that make money and fame seem paltry in comparison.” - Don McLeese (Austin American-Statesman) “John Szwed's excellent 1997 biography Space is the Place traces the in-depth study that lay behind Ra's fascination with Ancient Egypt, etymology and space, while making a case for the idea that Ra's Afrocentric cosmology not only reflected the tumult of the 1950s and 1960s, but transcended it.” - Mike Hobart (Financial Times) “Szwed is the best music biographer in the business.” - Greg Burk (LA Weekly) "The new forward . . . amounts to a brilliant essay that brings a fresh overview to Ra's story. . . . Space Is the Place is an exhaustive, fascinating and ultimately humanizing account of Sun Ra's life." - Ian Patterson (All About Jazz)
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The Man Who Recorded the World
A Biography of Alan LomaxWriter, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have been very different. This is his biography that also tells the story of a musical and political era.
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Crossovers
Essays on Race, Music, and American CultureCrossovers brings together four decades of popular and academic writings by folklorist, anthropologist, and jazz scholar John Szwed.
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Jazz 101
A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving JazzProvides an explanation of the basic elements of jazz, traverses the genre's history to see how it evolved, and profiles its key figures, theories, controversies, and role in American culture.
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Black Gods of the Metropolis
Negro Religious Cults of the Urban NorthDetails accounts of early spiritual black movements and their beliefs and practices. This title reveals the origins of such significant modern African American religious groups as the Nation of Islam as well as the role of lesser known and even forgotten churches in the history of the black community.
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Billie Holiday
Today, Billie Holiday is an icon – an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary music is unquestionable.
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So What
The Life of Miles Davis€ 33,95 -
Robert Ryman
A comprehensive study highlighting the interplay of context and meaning in Robert Ryman's work
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The Wire Primers
A Guide to Modern MusicA comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the planet. It surveys the musical universe of a particular artist, group or genre by way of a contextualizing introduction and a thumbnail guide to the most essential recordings.
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So What
The Life of Miles DavisBut Miles regularly changed styles, leaving his inimitable impact on many forms of jazz, whether he created them or simply developed the work of others, from modal jazz to be-bop, his seminal quintet and his big-band work, to the jazz funk experiments of later years.
€ 23,50