LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jason borge

3 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jason borge

  • Jazz Odyssey
    Jason Borge
    Booker T. Pittman (1909-1969) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who played with greats like Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the 1920s and 1930s. The maternal grandson of Booker T. Washington, Pittman was tremendously talented and ambitious like his famous grandfather. After starring in local jazz scenes as an alto saxophonist and clarinetist in Kansas City, Harlem, and ...
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    42,73 €

  • Tropical Riffs
    Jason Borge
    In Tropical Riffs Jason Borge traces how jazz helped forge modern identities and national imaginaries in Latin America during the mid-twentieth century. Across Latin America jazz functioned as a conduit through which debates about race, sexuality, nation, technology, and modernity raged in newspapers, magazines, literature, and film. For Latin American audiences, critics, and i...
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    33,97 €

  • Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema
    Jason Borge
    This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers, examining the ways in which these writers seized the opportunity to reassert their relevance in the rapidly modernizing public sphere by actively - and often subversively - mediating encounters between Hollywood and local audiences. ...
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    90,96 €