Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the on...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla John Szwed.
Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts. Without him the history of popular music would have be...
Today, Billie Holiday is an icon â?? an artist whose voice has weathered countless shifts in public taste, and whose impact on contemporary music is unquestionable.
Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth
John Szwed · ISBN 9780143107965
Julkaistu 2016 Kieli englanti nidottu
"Revelatory . . . one of the most briskly revealing pieces of jazz biography that I've read." --Richard Brody, The New Yorker When Billie Holiday first stepped into a recording...
Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
John Szwed · ISBN 9780143120735
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli englanti nidottu
The definitive biography of Alan Lomax-from John Szwed,"the best music biographer in the business" (L.A. Weekly). One of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, Al...
He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped dru...
Based on interviews with family and friends that have only now seen the light of day, this illuminating account of the jazz great's life reveals the influence of Miles Davis's l...
This guide to jazz will help curious culturephiles learn about this popular, yet occasionally intimidating, art form.
Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers ins...
Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner"The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . John Szwed] allows diff...
Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extrat...
This ground-breaking biography is as much about Sun Ra's music as it is about his passionate, often wildly unorthodox views on the galaxy, black people and spiritual matters. Wi...
I Remember
Clyde E. B. Bernhardt; John F. Szwed · ISBN 9780812212235
Julkaistu 1986 Kieli englanti pokkari
I Remember is a first-hand account of the world of black American music told by a man who has been part of that world for eighty years. Clyde E. B. Bernhardt worked with a numbe...
Folksongs and Their Makers
Henry H Glassie; Edward D. Ives; John F. Szwed · ISBN 9780879720063
Julkaistu 1979 Kieli englanti nidottu
Three prominent folklorists wrote these essays in the 1970s about Dorrance Weir of upstate New York and his song "Take that Night Train to Selma," Joe Scott of Maine and his son...
Baklängesöversättning : och andra texter
John Swedenmark · ISBN 9789197993814
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli ruotsi nidottu
John Swedenmark: Baklängesöversättning Ända sedan Stéphane Mallarmé en gång i modernismens barndom talade om "versens kris" har uppbrottet från den bundna metern framstått som d...
Mosaik heter Jimmy Ginsbys diktsamling som släpptes på Vildhallon i början av 2020. Mosaik är en diktsamling som rör sig mellan döden, gudstro, litenheten och det sköra i att ba...
Rosariet, det marina
Maria Küchen; John Swedenmark · ISBN 9789172474215
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli ruotsi nidottu
I Rosariet, det marina dyker vi ner i världshavet. Vi rör oss med de första organismerna, i väntan på landhöjningen. Uppe på land befinner vi oss i det brutala 2010-talet. Rosar...
Nu är det Tid, att händerna blir solstråle
Dilshad Abdulla; John Swedenmark · ISBN 9789180595438
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli ruotsi nidottu
Verket är dikter i urval av dem senaste femton års diktsamlingar. Dilshad Abdulla, kurdisk poet, född 1956 i Erbil– Södra Kurdistan. Hör till vår tids mest betydande kurdiska po...
Öknen : tragikomiskt drama i en akt
Cecilia Nelson; John Swedenmark · ISBN 9789188712769
Julkaistu 2006 Kieli ruotsi sidottu
Två gestalter närmar sig. En kvinna och en man. De ser ut att vara ensamma i världen. Adam och Eva kanske? Nej, de är inte omgivna av någon lustgård. Det här är en öken. Sand, s...
Falla (Eurydike)
Agneta Enckell; John Swedenmark · ISBN 9789189066045
Julkaistu 2020 Kieli ruotsi sidottu
Falla (Eyrudike) är Agneta Enckells tredje diktsamling från 1991, nominerad till Finlandiapriset, här i ny utgåva i N/L:s poesibibliotek, med förord av översättaren och litterat...