{"product_id":"jazzing-9780252040115","title":"Jazzing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJazzing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich and unique analysis of the social and musical lives of nonperforming participants in New York City's jazz scene(s). . . . Thomas Greenland tells a story of the vast and varied positions in a musical community that are not only necessary for, but constituent to, the community continuing to thrive.\" --\u003ci\u003eJazz \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Those who think deeply and seriously about the fate and direction of jazz, America's unique musical art-form, will find it interesting and rewarding.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Syncopated Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A strikingly thoughtful book.\"--\u003ci\u003eJazz Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A very readable and entertainingly written book.\"--\u003ci\u003eJazzinstitut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A probing, fascinating, and sensitive portrait of a community of 'jazz people,' Tom Greenland's \u003ci\u003eJazzing\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that jazz is not simply sound, but is a way of life that impacts us in profound and different ways.\"--Ken Prouty, author of \u003ci\u003eKnowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Written in a refreshing non-academic style . . . \u003ci\u003eJazzing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a valuable portrait of the ever-changing New York jazz scene.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York City Jazz Record\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eJazzing\u003c\/i\u003e is a veritable whirlwind of congruent, conflicting and overlapping points of view. From Greenland's wide-angle vantage point . . . the listening to, presenting, writing about, photographing, creating visual art during performances, and promoting of live jazz is loaded with an array of complex social, economic and personal factors.\"--\u003ci\u003eAll About Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Give[s] the audience - listeners, fans, and critics - alike a serious voice in the element of improvisation, which, in the case of jazz, is the key to its existence. . . . This book becomes well worth interacting with and becoming a part of the experience of its subject, i.e. \u003ci\u003eJazzing\u003c\/i\u003e.\"--\u003ci\u003eJazz da Gama\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036825911639,"sku":"9780252040115","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252040115.jpg?v=1750932672","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jazzing-9780252040115","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}