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Jazz And Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader

By Francis Davis

Book information

Publisher
Hachette Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9780786749812, 0306810557
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
850 kB (870358 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-28 20:40:53
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Description

From Frank Sinatra to Sun Ra, from the jazz age to middle age, with thoughts on everything in-between, Francis Davis has been writing about American music and American culture for more than twenty years. His essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and the Village Voice among countless other publications from coast to coast. And now, for the first time, here are his most important writings of his impressive career-the quintessential Davis on everything from why Rent set musicals back two decades, to what Ken Burns should have filmed. And Davis's writing is as enjoyable as the music of which he writes. The New York Times Book Review has compared Davis's work to "a well-blown solo."

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