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Jazz modernism:

from Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
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Yale University Perss, 2004 - Art - 283 pages
How does the jazz of Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, and Charlie Parker fit into the great tradition of modernist art? In this book, an eminent cultural historian provides the answer and offers a brilliant new way of understanding jazz.

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What do Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington have to do with James Joyce and Pablo Picasso? A lot, if you buy Appel's argument in this erudite but misguided analysis of the classical jazz era (1920-1950 ... Read full review

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About the author (2004)

Alfred Appel, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of English at Northwestern University. He is the author of "The Annotated Lolita" (which has been in print since 1970), "Nabokov's Dark Cinema, Signs of Life," and "The Art of Celebration." He has been the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships. Appel lives in Wilmette, Illinois.

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TitleJazz modernism: from Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
AuthorAlfred Appel
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherYale University Perss, 2004
ISBN0300102739, 9780300102734
Length283 pages
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