Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest write by Ross Russell. This book was released on 1971. Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker are just a few of the jazz luminaries discussed in Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, the essential account of the evolution of the Kansas City style from its ragtime roots to the birth of bebop. Book jacket.
Queering Kansas City Jazz
Queering Kansas City Jazz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queering Kansas City Jazz write by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Queering Kansas City Jazz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City’s music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city’s history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space. Cabarets, gender impressionism clubs, and sites of sex tourism in Kansas City served as world-making spaces for those whose performance of identity transgressed hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical deconstruction of how the jazz scene offered a space for nonnormative gender practice and performance and acted as a site of contested identity and spatial territory. Few books examine the changing ideas about gender in the turn-of-the-century Great Plains, under the false assumption that people in middle-American places experienced cultural shifts only as an aftershock of events on the coasts. This approach overlooks the region’s contested territories, identities, and memories and fails to adequately explain the social and cultural disruptions experienced on the plains. Clifford-Napoleone rectifies this oversight and shows how Kansas City represents the complexity of the jazz scene in America as a microcosm of all the other people who made the culture, clubs, music, and cabarets of the age possible.
Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City
Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City write by Andrea Broomfield. This book was released on 2022-04-11. Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Generations of families and restaurateurs have loyally turned out the delectable foods that made Kansas City the food destination that it is. Opened in 1930, the Infante family's El Nopal at 416 West Thirteenth Street is reputedly the first restaurant to introduce a wider Kansas City audience to Mexican food. The city's beloved Savoy Grill was not only one of Harry S Truman's favorite haunts but also the restaurant where many Kansas Citians remember eating their first lobster dinner. "Amazin' Grace" Harris's tiny Kansas City, Kansas H & M Barbecue kept alive Kansas City's "Paris of the Plains" reputation--for those in the know. Author and native Andrea Broomfield goes on a journey to discover the roots of Kansas City's favorite restaurants.
The Roots of Texas Music
The Roots of Texas Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roots of Texas Music write by Lawrence Clayton. This book was released on 2005. The Roots of Texas Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains nine essays in which the authors examine various aspects of Texas music from its beginnings to 1950, providing an overview of Texas music history, and discussing Texan jazz, country music, early Texas bluesmen, classical and religious music, and various ethnic genres.
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams
Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams write by Andrew S. Berish. This book was released on 2012-04-15. Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.
