{"product_id":"soul-on-soul-9780252085536","title":"Soul on Soul","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst time in paperback and e-book!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The jazz musician-composer-arranger Mary Lou Williams spent her sixty-year career working in—and stretching beyond—a dizzying range of musical styles. Her integration of classical music into her works helped expand jazz''s compositional language. Her generosity made her a valued friend and mentor to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her late-in-life flowering of faith saw her embrace a spiritual jazz oriented toward advancing the civil rights struggle and helping wounded souls. \u003cp\u003eTammy L. Kernodle details Williams''s life in music against the backdrop of controversies over women''s place in jazz and bitter arguments over the music''s evolution. Williams repeatedly asserted her artistic and personal independence to carve out a place despite widespread bafflement that a woman exhibited such genius. Embracing Williams''s contradictions and complexities, Kernodle also explores a personal li\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Recommended.\" --\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Diligently chronicles the life and times of the extraordinary innovator.\"--\u003ci\u003eJazz Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Kernodle’s \u003ci\u003eSoul on Soul\u003c\/i\u003e serves as an essential text, working to set the record straight on one of the genre’s most significant—and conspicuously ignored—composers.\" --\u003ci\u003eDownBeat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoverTitleCopyrightContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefae to the New EditionIntroduction1. I Dream a World2. Take Me to Froggy Bottom: The Early Musical Years3. From East Liberty (Pittsburgh) to Beale Street (Memphis) to Eighteenth and Vine (Kansas City)4. Until the Real Thing Comes Along: The Andy Kirk Years (1931– 42)5. How Do You Keep the Music Playing?6. Love on a Two-Way Street: Barney Josephson and Moe Asch7. Under the Signs of the Zodiac8. The Calm before the Storm9. The Crossroads10. The Long Journey Back Home11. What a Difference a Day Makes12. A Season of Change13. The Fruits of One’s LaborNotesBibliographySelected DiscographyIndexBack cover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400517427543,"sku":"9780252085536","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252085536.jpg?v=1730470875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/soul-on-soul-9780252085536","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}