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Free Download Teófilo Espada-Brignoni, "The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography"
English | ISBN: 1793624380 | 2022 | 170 pages | EPUB, PDF | 11 MB + 840 KB
In The Performance of Authenticity: The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography Teófilo Espada-Brignoni analyzes the autobiographies of New Orleans musicians (Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins) who throughout their texts construct New Orleans jazz as an authentic musical expression grounded in their experiences and culture. The author argues the autobiographies reproduce and reinterpret modernist conceptions of authenticity to assert and affirm authority over the public representations and discussions of jazz. Through the autobiographers’ use of ideas about authenticity, they establish the value of their narratives but at the same time reinforce some of the power dynamics they set out to criticize. Their narratives also reveal the complex ethics that emerged during the first decades of the music and problematize modernist values such as individualism, the dichotomy of work and life, as well as the self and the social. The book adopts Foucauldian and social-constructivist perspectives, complementing analysis of the autobiographies by drawing from literary theory, psychology, sociology, and jazz scholarship.

Free Download Emily Bingham, "Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0374536198, 0809094649 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 6.3 mb
Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love affairs with women made her the subject of derision and caused a doctor to try to cure her queerness. After the speed and pleasure of her early decades, the toxicity of judgment from others, coupled with her own anxieties, resulted in years of addiction and breakdowns. And perhaps most painfully, she became a source of embarrassment for her family-she was labeled "a three-dollar bill." But forebears can become fairy-tale figures, especially when they defy tradition and are spoken of only in whispers. For the biographer and historian Emily Bingham, the secret of who her great-aunt was, and just why her story was concealed for so long, led to Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham.

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Playing guitar licks like a pro with only just one finger! In our second "LICKS" edition we offer jazz guitar licks. No matter what pitch, no matter what speed, the licks always fit into the mix.

Free Download Cahokia Jazz: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C87BNG7L | 2024 | 15 hours and 36 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 428 MB
Author: Francis Spufford
Narrator: Andy Ingalls

Free Download Beginner Jazz Guitar-Mastering The 2-5-1 Progression
Published 1/2024
Created by Toth Balazs
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 9 Lectures ( 1h 49m ) | Size: 2.4 GB

Free Download David Kastin, "Nica’s Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness"
English | 2011 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0393069400 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
The first biography of the legendary Rothschild heiress who reigned as New York’s "Jazz Baroness."

Free Download Eleonora Zorzi Marina Santi, "Education as Jazz"
English | ISBN: 1443890707 | 2016 | 220 pages | PDF | 1103 KB
The result of an international event celebrating the second UNESCO International Jazz Day held on April 30 2013 at the University of Padova, Italy, this book represents the development of a project begun some years before to investigate the issue of improvisation, considered as a multi-faced concept and practice. The initial focus of this project was to discuss the different meanings attributed to the concept of improvisation, starting from questioning the common misunderstanding which interprets improvisation as a naïve behaviour rather than high-level performance. According with these premises, Education as Jazz represents a metaphor and a challenge, exploring the potential of jazz conceived not only as kind of music or art, but rather as a mix of values, attitudes, and skills fundamental in everyday life and in human development. As such, the book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective and a multidimensional approach. According to the rationale of the UNESCO International Jazz Day, which highlights the role of jazz in promoting peaceful societies, intercultural dialogue, gender equality, and innovative spirit, this book offers a concrete educational resource and theoretical framework oriented towards a new pedagogy for freedom.

Free Download The Lady Swings: Memoirs of a Jazz Drummer by Dottie Dodgion, Wayne Enstice
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0252085515 | 312 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied the odds and earned a seat as a woman in the exclusive men’s club of jazz. Her dues-paying path as a musician took her from early work with Charles Mingus to being hired by Benny Goodman at Basin Street East on her first day in New York. From there she broke new ground as a woman who played a "man’s instrument" in first-string, all-male New York City jazz bands. Her inspiring memoir talks frankly about her music and the challenges she faced, and shines a light into the jazz world of the 1960s and 1970s.

Free Download Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History by Robert Walser
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0195091728 | 464 Pages | PDF | 9.3 MB
Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth.

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