Andrew S. Berish
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226044941
- eISBN:
- 9780226044965
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226044965.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This book showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with ...
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Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This book showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, the author bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering a framework for musical analysis that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma, the book depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.Less
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. This book showcases how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, the author bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering a framework for musical analysis that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma, the book depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.
Frederick H. Hanselmann and Charles D. Beeker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061580
- eISBN:
- 9780813051246
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061580.003.0005
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Captured off the west coast of India by the scandalous 17th Century pirate Captain William Kidd, the Armenian-owned Cara Merchant of Quedagh sailed into the Caribbean and was subsequently abandoned ...
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Captured off the west coast of India by the scandalous 17th Century pirate Captain William Kidd, the Armenian-owned Cara Merchant of Quedagh sailed into the Caribbean and was subsequently abandoned offshore of Catalina Island in present day Dominican Republic. Although lost, but not forgotten, the pirate ship was subject to both contemporary and modern day treasure hunts in the effort to discover the documented precious cargo. Discovered in 2007, scientific investigations have not only conclusively proven the identity of this ship which is associated with Captain Kidd, but also more significantly has documented the shipwreck as a unique example of 17th CenturyWest India ship construction. Inaugurated as a Living Museum in the Sea on May 23, 2011, the Naufragio de Capitán Kidd is now protected under new Dominican Republic law for this and future generations.Less
Captured off the west coast of India by the scandalous 17th Century pirate Captain William Kidd, the Armenian-owned Cara Merchant of Quedagh sailed into the Caribbean and was subsequently abandoned offshore of Catalina Island in present day Dominican Republic. Although lost, but not forgotten, the pirate ship was subject to both contemporary and modern day treasure hunts in the effort to discover the documented precious cargo. Discovered in 2007, scientific investigations have not only conclusively proven the identity of this ship which is associated with Captain Kidd, but also more significantly has documented the shipwreck as a unique example of 17th CenturyWest India ship construction. Inaugurated as a Living Museum in the Sea on May 23, 2011, the Naufragio de Capitán Kidd is now protected under new Dominican Republic law for this and future generations.
