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Full-Text Articles in American Popular Culture
Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula
Rave Reviews The History Of Akron's Tuesday Musical, Thomas Bacher, Cynthia Harrison, Sharon Cebula
University of Akron Press Publications
The Tuesday Musical Club was founded in 1887 by thirteen young Akron women who had an overwhelming desire to share their love of music. With further support of Gertrude Penfield Seiberling, the wife of industrialist Frank Seiberling, the organization grew like many other musical organizations across the country. Unlike similar clubs, the Akron-based entity continued to expand and is one of a very few that have survived. Among the artists who have appeared as a part of the rich history of Akron's Tuesday Musical Organization are Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Yehudi Menuhin, Yascha Heifetz, Glenn Gould, Van Cliburn, Isaac Stern, …
"Listen To The Wild Discord": Jazz In The Chicago Defender And The Louisiana Weekly, 1925-1929, Sarah A. Waits
"Listen To The Wild Discord": Jazz In The Chicago Defender And The Louisiana Weekly, 1925-1929, Sarah A. Waits
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
This essay will use the views of two African American newspaper columnists, E. Belfield Spriggins of the Louisiana Weekly and Dave Peyton of the Chicago Defender, to argue that though New Orleans and Chicago both occupied a primary place in the history of jazz, in many ways jazz was initially met with ambivalence and suspicion. The struggle between the desire to highlight black achievement in music and the effort to adhere to tenets of middle class respectability play out in their columns. Despite historiographical writings to the contrary, these issues of the influence of jazz music on society were …
Cleveland Jazz History, Second Edition, Joe Mosbrook
Cleveland Jazz History, Second Edition, Joe Mosbrook
Scholarship Collection
Contents: What is jazz? -- Cleveland's earliest links to jazz -- The jazz age in Cleveland -- Art Tatum at Val's in the alley -- Duke Ellington in Cleveland -- Count Basie's Cleveland connections -- The big band era -- Central High School -- Freddie Webster -- Tadd Dameron --Meet Benny Bailey -- Cleveland jazz clubs -- Cleveland jazz guitarists -- The singers in Cleveland -- Boogie woogie piano -- "Modern" jazz -- Big bands of the 1950s -- The far-ringing 1960s -- Traditional jazz -- Resurgence in the 1980s and '90s -- Joe Lovano -- Ken Peplowski -- Other …