Madame Jazz

Madame Jazz
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780195106473
ISBN-13 : 0195106474
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Book Synopsis Madame Jazz by : Leslie Gourse

Download or read book Madame Jazz written by Leslie Gourse and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madame Jazz is a fascinating invitation to the inside world of women in jazz. Ranging primarily from the late 1970s to today's vanguard of performance jazz in New York City and on the West Coast, it chronicles a crucial time of transition as women make the leap from novelty acts regarded as second class citizens to sought-out professionals admired and hired for their consummate musicianship. Author Leslie Gourse surveys the scene in the jazz clubs, the concert halls, the festivals, and the recording studios from the musicians' point of view. She finds both exciting progress and lingering discrimination. The growing success of women instrumentalists has been a long time in coming, she writes. Long after women became accepted as writers and, to a lesser extent, as visual artists, women in music--classical, pop, or jazz--faced the nearly insuperable barrier of chauvinism and the still insidious force of tradition and habit that keeps most men performing with the musicians they have always worked with, other men. With dozens of captivating no-holds-barred interviews with both rising stars and seasoned veterans, Madame Jazz is about the history that women jazz instrumentalists are making now, as well as an inspiring preview of the even brighter days ahead.


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