Da Capo best music writing 2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn /…”

Stolen time : black fad performance and the Calypso craze / by Vogel, Shane

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : This and that, or, Swiped Calypsos -- Stolen Time : The ontology of Black fad performance -- The Calypso program : technology, performance, cinema -- Carnivalizing jazz : Duke Ellington's Calypso Theater and the diasporic instant -- Surfacing the Caribbean : Black Broadway and mock transnational performance -- Conclusion : Don't stop the carnival.…”
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Lonesome roads and streets of dreams : place, mobility, and race in jazz of the 1930s and '40s / by Berish, Andrew S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- I dream of her and Avalon : 1930s sweet jazz, race, and nostalgia at the Casino Ballroom -- From the "make-believe ballroom" to the Meadowbrook Inn : Charlie Barnet and the promise of the road -- A locomotive laboratory of place : Duke Ellington and his Orchestra -- Travels with Charlie Christian : between region and nation -- Conclusion: air spaces.…”

Lonesome roads and streets of dreams : place, mobility, and race in jazz of the 1930s and '40s / by Berish, Andrew S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- I dream of her and Avalon: Jan Garber, sweet jazz, and race at the Casino Ballroom -- From the "make-believe ballroom" to the Meadowbrook Inn: Charlie Barnet and the promise of the road -- A locomotive laboratory of place: Duke Ellington and his Orchestra -- Travels with Charlie Christian: between region and nation -- Conclusion: air spaces.…”
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Composers' voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian

Table of Contents: “…Virgil Thomson ; Aaron Copland ; Roy Harris -- Exploring the world of Duke Ellington.…”

Composers voices from Ives to Ellington : an oral history of American music / by Perlis, Vivian, Van Cleve, Libby

Table of Contents: “…Virgil Thomson ; Aaron Copland ; Roy Harris -- Exploring the world of Duke Ellington.…”
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The power of pride : stylemakers and rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance / by Marks, Carole

Table of Contents: “…., connections: Florence Mills -- Duke Ellington -- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson -- Paris: Société des amis des noirs: Carl Van Vechten -- Langston Hughes -- Dorothy West.…”

The Ellington century / by Schiff, David

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Contemporary classics : masterpieces of the 20th century.

Table of Contents: “…The Blues from The Black, Brown and Beige (Duke Ellington) -- V. Ragtime (Igor Stravinsky) -- VI. …”
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Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars / by Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, bodies and machines -- The tempo of life is out of control, and then righted -- The jazz train and American musical modernity -- African American modernism and the techno-dialogic : from John Henry to Duke Ellington -- Swinging the machines : big bands and streamliner trains -- The standardized white girl in the pleasure machine : the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s musicals -- Tap dancers rap back at the machine -- America's national folk dance : the Lindy hop -- The world of tomorrow...in the groove : swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 -- Conclusion: the continuing importance of swinging the machine.…”
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From the briarpatch file : on context, procedure, and American identity / by Murray, Albert

Table of Contents: “…Jack's Place -- Made in America: the achievement of Duke Ellington -- Me and old Duke -- Me and old Uncle Billy and the American atmosphere -- The HNIC who he -- Soul brothers abroad -- Freedom bound U.S.A. -- The good old boys down yonder -- The "reconstruction" of Robert Penn Warren -- Louis Armstrong in his own world -- Manhattan in the twenties -- The blue steel, rawhide, patent leather implications of fairy tales -- An all purpose, all-American literary intellectual.…”

Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars / by Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, bodies and machines -- The tempo of life is out of control, and then righted -- The jazz train and American musical modernity -- African American modernism and the techno-dialogic : from John Henry to Duke Ellington -- Swinging the machines : big bands and streamliner trains -- The standardized white girl in the pleasure machine : the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s musicals -- Tap dancers rap back at the machine -- America's national folk dance : the Lindy hop -- The world of tomorrow...in the groove : swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 -- Conclusion: the continuing importance of swinging the machine.…”

Black music in the Harlem Renaissance : a collection of essays /

Table of Contents: “…Ryder -- William Grant Still, Florence Price, and William Dawson : echoes of the Harlem Renaissance / Rae Linda Brown -- Black musical theater and the Harlem Renaissance movement / John Graziano -- The renaissance education of Duke Ellington / Mark Tucker -- Interactions between writers and music during the Harlem Renaissance / Richard A. …”

The sounds of place : music and the American cultural landscape / by Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Aaron Copland, Quiet city and Music for a great city ; Edgard Varèse, Amériques ; Duke Ellington, Harlem air shaft and Harlem -- Beyond the city : rivers, canyons, and plains. …”

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Terrible honesty : mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s / by Douglas, Ann, 1942-

When genres collide : Down Beat, Rolling Stone, and the struggle between jazz and rock / by Brennan, Matt

The jazz ambassadors /

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The sounds of place : music and the American cultural landscape / by Von Glahn, Denise, 1950-

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The Sounds of Place : Music and the American Cultural Landscape. by Von Glahn, Denise

Table of Contents: “…Chapter Three: Urban Places: Iconic New York -- Aaron Copland: Quiet City and Music for a Great City -- Edgard Varèse: Amériques -- Duke Ellington: Harlem Air Shaft and Harlem -- Chapter Four: Beyond the City: Rivers, Canyons, and Plains -- William Grant Still: Kaintuck' and American Scenes -- Roy Harris: Cimarron -- Ferde Grofé: Mississippi Suite, Grand Canyon Suite, Hudson River Suite, and Niagara Falls Suite -- Chapter Five: Return to Nature: Recent Reconsiderations -- Robert Starer: Hudson Valley Suite -- Dana Paul Perna: Prout's Neck and Three Places on Long Island…”
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