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"This book provides a timely analysis of the relationship between jazz and recording and broadcast technologies in the early twentieth century. Jazz histories have traditionally privileged qualities such as authenticity, naturalness and spontaneity, but to do so overlooks jazz's status as a modernist, mechanised art form that evolved alongside the moving image and visual cultures. Jazz as Visual Language shows that the moving image is crucial to our understanding of what the materiality of jazz

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Author

Pillai, Nicolas

Publisher

I.B. Tauris; Bloomsbury

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350986923

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, Sports, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25