Fire Music

A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990

By:

John Gray

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Music Reference Collection

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"Fire" music makes accessible the most extensive scholarship of the new jazz beginning in the 1950s. Included are materials on such topics as jazz collectives and the New York loft scene as well as jazz in specific countries and biographical and critical studies on over 400 artists and more than 7,100 sources are further divided by types of materials, including print and audio-visual sources. A new jazz chronology and a bibliography section on African cultural history and the arts provide background materials. Appendixes offer general reference sources, a directory of archives and classified lists of artists by country and instrument.

Author Biography:

JOHN GRAY is currently Director of the Black Arts Research Center, an archival resource center dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of the African cultural legacy. His previous publications include African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa (1991), Blacks in Film and Television: A Pan-African Bibliography of Films, Filmmakers, and Performers (1990), Black Theatre and Performance (1990) he, Traditional Religion and Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Diaspora (1989) and Blacks in Classical Music (1988), all published by Greenwood Press.

Release date NZ

September 25th, 1991

Author

John Gray

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Interest Age

From 7 to 17 years

Pages

536

Series

Music Reference Collection

Dimensions

156x234x30

ISBN-13

9780313278921

Product ID

14243417

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