Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance Roger Proyer Dodge - Collected Writings, 1929-1964

Name: Hot Jazz and Jazz Dance Roger Proyer Dodge - Collected Writings, 1929-1964
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ISBN: 9780195071856

ISBN-10: 0195071859

ISBN-13: 9780195071856

Edition: 1995

Authors: Roger P. Dodge, Pryor Dodge

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Covering the 1930s to the end of the 1950s, Roger Pryor Dodge's collected jazz writings are brought together in this book. Dodge was a key critic writing about this music during its revival in the 1940s and was formerly a dancer with jazz bands.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/14/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.738



Negro Jazz


Serge Lifar: A Study


Harpsichords and Jazz Trumpets


Negro Jazz as Folk Material for Our Modern Dance


On Nijinsky Photographs


Dance in the Cinema


From Spirituals to Swing: An Evening of American Negro Music


Consider the Critics


Hot Jazz: Notes on the Future


Bubber


Hot Jazz: Est-ce du Bach


Identifications


Jazz in the Twenties


Duke Ellington


Wanda Landowska


Lu Watters Correspondence


Louis Armstrong


Jazz Critic Looks at Anthropologist


Dancing on Skates: Correspondence


The Dance-Basis of Jazz


Jazz of This Quarter


Categorical Terms in Jazz: Improvisation versus Arranged Jazz


Attitude Towards Early and Late Jazz


The Psychology of the Hot Solo


A Non-Aesthetic Basis for the Dance


The Deceptive Nature of Sensuousness in Ensemble Playing


The Place of Space and Time in the Dance


Alicia Markova and Alicia Alonso


France's Answer to Bebop


Nijinsky: An Appreciation


Landmark: Landowska Completes the "48,"


Jazz: Its Rise and Decline


A Listener's Hierarchy in Jazz: Historical Precedents for the Future


The Importance of Dance Style in the Presentation of Early Western Instrumental Music


Jazz and the Dance


The Problem of Form


Objective Criteria


Bubber Miley


The Cuban Sexteto


Popular Singers


Throwback


Jazz Dance, Mambo Dance


Write That Thing


Uses of the Past: A Reply to Martin Williams and Douglas Pomeroy


Tradition in Ballet: Les Sylphides


Reviews


Index