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Can I read Black Music Four Lives on EtoBox?
Black Music Four Lives by Alfred Bennett Spellman is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Black Music Four Lives about?
This book tells what it means to be a black artist in America today. A. B. Spellman, in four profiles based on many hours of tape-recorded interviews, takes us deep inside jazz culture - the unremitting fight for work, for decent pay and conditions, for the right to innovate, for recognition. Much of the book is told in the musicians' own words, understated, cool, clear-eyed.
Who reads Black Music Four Lives?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Alfred Bennett Spellman
- Publisher
- Schocken Books, Incorporated
- Published
- 1971
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805202816
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Music, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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