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Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Imprint) by Gabriel Solis is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Monk's Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Imprint) about?
Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was one of jazz's greatest and most enigmatic figures. As a composer, pianist, and bandleader, Monk both extended the piano tradition known as Harlem stride and was at the center of modern jazz's creation during the 1940s, setting the stage for the experimentalism of the 1960s and '70s. This pathbreaking study combines cultural theory, biography, and musical analysis to shed new light on Monk's music and on the jazz canon itself. Gabriel Solis shows how the work of th
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gabriel Solis
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520252011
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, History, Biography
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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