Volume 21, Number 16 · October 17, 1974
Making Black Music
By Virgil Thomson
Bird Lives! The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
by Ross Russell
Charterhouse, 404 pp., $8.95
Black Music: Four Lives 1966)
by A.B. Spellman
Schocken (originally, Four Lives in the Bebop Business, Pantheon,, 241 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Black Music
by LeRoi Jones
Morrow, 221 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music
by Frank Kofsky
Pathfinder, 280 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Reflections on Afro-American Music
by Dominique-René de Lerma
Kent State University Press, 271 pp., $10.00
Black Talk
by Ben Sidran
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 201 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Urban black music (more often called 'jazz') was formerly written about, say back in the 1930s, as if it were an objectively describable modern phenomenon like French impressionism, with a clear history of derivations, influences, and individual achievements.
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