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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Film and Culture)

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Film and Culture)

Current price: $35.00
Publication Date: December 8th, 1998
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
ISBN:
9780231104494
Pages:
576
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Description

A comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk.

About the Author

Robert G. O'Meally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of American Literature at Columbia University.