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Hard bop : jazz and Black music, 1955-1965 by the late David H. Rosenthal is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hard bop : jazz and Black music, 1955-1965 about?
Despite a lava flow of mediocre offerings, there have been a number of good books written on jazz over the years; the essays of Nat Hentoff, Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch along with various histories and aesthetic treatises (Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray) enrich both our enjoyment and knowledge of this dynamic art form. While he has apparently published only one book on the topic, David H. Rosenthal's writing in "Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965" exhibits a number of unique characteristics which demonstrate that he belongs in the same rarified company. Rosenthal's calm and guileless enthusiasm, a combination of streetwise smarts and poetic sensitivity, allows him to venture intelligent observations without lapsing into mere opinion mongering. Aspects of the jazz subculture (and necessarily, the life of the black Americans within it) are discussed without recourse to reductionist political or sociological theories. Perhaps this can be attributed to Rosenthal's distance from day-to-day involvement in the "jazz industry"; the Chicago native's main gig is as a literary man (translator of Portuguese and Catalan literature). This comes through in "Hard Bop", from the master
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- Author
- the late David H. Rosenthal
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 1993
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198022497
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Fiction, Music, History
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (72 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
