Body and Soul: The Making of American Modernism
Robert M. Crunden
(Author)
Description
In this book Robert Crunden puts the jazz back in the Jazz Age. Jazz was America's greatest contribution to the Modernist movement, yet it is much overlooked. When we hear the term Jazz Age, we conjure the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Eliot, not Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington. In order to correct this imbalance, Crunden re-introduces us to these musical luminaries who gave the era its name as he traces the early history of jazz from New Orleans to Chicago to New York. While Crunden emphasizes music over literature and the visual arts, he never fails to map the complex cross-currents of literature that passed between jazz musicians and their Lost Generation peers, a veritable pageant of the glittering personalities of the day-James Joyce, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein.Product Details
Price
$21.99
Publisher
Basic Books
Publish Date
January 01, 2001
Pages
496
Dimensions
5.83 X 8.94 X 1.26 inches | 1.46 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780465014859
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