The Age Of Jazz
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Author | : F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030777922X |
Evoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” an extraordinary child is born an old man, growing younger as the world ages around him. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” a fable of excess and greed, shows two boarding school classmates mired in deception as they make their fortune in gemstones. And in the classic novella “May Day,” debutantes dance the night away as war veterans and socialists clash in the streets of New York. Opening the book is a playful and irreverent set of notes from the author, documenting the real-life pressures and experiences that shaped these stories, from his years at Princeton to his cravings for luxury to the May Day Riots of 1919. Taken as a whole, this collection brings to vivid life the dazzling excesses, stunning contrasts, and simmering unrest of a glittering era. Its 1922 publication furthered Fitzgerald's reputation as a master storyteller, and its legacy staked his place as the spokesman of an age.
Author | : Sarah Coffin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art deco |
ISBN | : 9780300224054 |
An exhilarating look at Art Deco design in 1920s America, using jazz as its unifying metaphor Capturing the dynamic pulse of the era's jazz music, this lavishly illustrated publication explores American taste and style during the golden age of the 1920s. Following the destructive years of the First World War, this flourishing decade marked a rebirth of aesthetic innovation that was cultivated to a great extent by American talent and patronage. Due to an influx of European émigrés to the United States, as well as American enthusiasm for traveling to Europe's cultural capitals, a reciprocal wave of experimental attitudes began traveling back and forth across the Atlantic, forming a creative vocabulary that mirrored the ecstatic spirit of the times. The Jazz Age showcases developments in design, art, architecture, and technology during the '20s and early '30s, and places new emphasis on the United States as a vital part of the emerging marketplace for Art Deco luxury goods. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations and essays by two leading historians of decorative arts, this comprehensive catalogue shows how America and the rest of the world worked to establish a new visual representation of modernity. Distributed for the Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (04/07/17-08/20/17) Cleveland Museum of Art (09/30/17-01/14/18)
Author | : Arnold Shaw |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0195060822 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper.
Author | : Jonah Winter |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2012-01-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442447109 |
A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats! Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude that made her famous. She even had a pet leopard in Paris! From bestselling children’s biographer Jonah Winter and two-time Caldecott Honoree Marjorie Priceman comes a story of a woman the stage could barely contain. Rising from a poor, segregated upbringing, Josephine Baker was able to break through racial barriers with her own sense of flair and astonishing dance abilities. She was a pillar of steel with a heart of gold—all wrapped up in feathers, sequins, and an infectious rhythm.
Author | : Donald L. Miller |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1416550208 |
An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment --
Author | : |
Publisher | : New York : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
A thrilling collection of photographs that reveal the people, places, and events of Jazz's Golden Age the period from the late 1930s through the 1940s during which the music underwent enormous growth and transformation. Two hundred b&w photographs are included, accompanied by Gottlieb's recollection
Author | : Alexandra Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190912669 |
Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain explores the interaction between opera and popular culture at a moment when there was a growing imperative to categorize art forms as "highbrow," "middlebrow," or "lowbrow." In this provocative and timely study, Alexandra Wilson considers how the opera debate of the 1920s continues to shape the ways in which we discuss the art form, and draws connections between the battle of the brows and present-day discussions about elitism.
Author | : Chip Deffaa |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780252062582 |
Features interviews of Sam Wooding, Benny Waters, Joe Tarto, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Freddie Moore, and Jabbo Smith, and Bix Beiderbecke's letters to his family.
Author | : Mitchell Newton-Matza |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1598840339 |
Author | : Stephen Schloesser |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0802087183 |
Stephen Schloesser's Jazz Age Catholicism shows how a postwar generation of Catholics refashioned traditional notions of sacramentalism in modern language and imagery.