The Imperfect Art: Reflections On Jazz And Modern Culture

The Imperfect Art: Reflections On Jazz And Modern Culture

PublisherStanford Alumni Association
Production Director/ManagerGayle Hemenway
Series EditorMiriam Miller
Published in/by Arrangement withOxford University Press
Art Director/EditorAndrew Danish
Cover/Jacket Design byJeffrey Whitten
Book Design byAndrew Danish
Copyright HolderTed Gioia
About/SubjectJazz
Publisher SeriesThe Portable Stanford
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationStanford
Copyright1988
Pages / Fontx, 163 pages
Barcode9780195063288
ISBN0-19-506328-7
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number87-34970
Chapters1 Louis Armstrong and furniture music 1 2 Jazz and the primitivist myth 19 3 The imperfect art 51 4 Neoclassicism in jazz 73 5 What has jazz to do with aesthetics? 99 6 Boredom and jazz 113 7 Jazz as song 133 Notes 147 About the author 155 Index 157 Credits 163
NotesPrinted in the United States of America Author's foreword dated Palo Alto, June 1987. Includes ten black-and-white photographs
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