Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis
A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography
Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Music Styles, Jazz & Blues, Jazz
| Author: | Aaron Lefkovitz | ISBN: | 9781498567527 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | June 20, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Aaron Lefkovitz |
| ISBN: | 9781498567527 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | June 20, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.
This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.
