DEIRDRE O CONNELL
Autor(a) de The ballad of Blind Tom, slave pianist
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CIRCA, NO 16 2 cópias
CIRCA, NO. 21 1 exemplar(es)
CIRCA, NO 17 1 exemplar(es)
CIRCA, NO 15 1 exemplar(es)
CIRCA, NO 20 1 exemplar(es)
CIRCA, NO 14 1 exemplar(es)
CIRCA, NO 22 1 exemplar(es)
Dietl Edition 2019: Palimpsest by Deirdre O'Connell 1 exemplar(es)
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And that's just what I've absorbed from reading one-third of it.
Some may not know that I have a (very) minor role in broadcasting jazz on a community radio station. The Spouse (whose impressive professional CV includes what started as a hobby i.e. being leader and arranger of the Australian Cotton Club Orchestra) has been presenting Swing and Sway on 3CR for decades, and he has recently stepped into the shoes of the late Ralph Knight who presented Steam Radio for over forty years. Since he's also presenting a jazz program on Radio 3RPP in Mornington, and all this has to be prepared offsite since the pandemic, I have resumed doing the very occasional program to give him a break. I mention this because my interest in jazz is specific to big band jazz of the 20s, 30s and 40s, and although this is heresy to aficionados, I prefer the melodic style and rhythms of British Dance Bands to hot jazz from America. One of the aspects that I've found interesting in Harlem Nights is the way these differences have been framed in terms of race.
As O'Connell explains further in the chapter 'The Jazzing Spheres', when the Australian promoter of Sonny Clay's Colored Idea subscribed to the fashionably cosmopolitan view that 'jazz as played by a European' and a 'real Negro' were 'entirely different' he was conforming to this primitivist fantasy.
Today, we can see how racist that framing is.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2021/12/08/harlem-nights-the-secret-history-of-australi...… (mais)