Output details
35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
University of Salford
Book title
Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Cambridge University Press
ISBN of book
978 052 189 645 0
Year of publication
2010
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition presents an extensive critical examination of jazz history and historiography through a complex series of interdisciplinary case studies. By exploring the concept of iconicity in jazz, and challenging dominant representations of jazz history, Jazz Icons includes a substantive range of insights developed from a range of academic fields including musicology, cultural and critical theory, film and media studies, and African American literature. The book draws on research undertaken over a seven year period and substantially challenges existing scholarship and understandings of jazz 8sz`,mx `
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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