Colter Harper

Broschiertes Buch

Jazz in the Hill

Nightlife and Narratives of a Pittsburgh Neighborhood

Beschreibung

From the 1920s through the 1960s, Pittsburghâ s Hill District was the heart of the cityâ s Black cultural life and home to a vibrant jazz scene. In Jazz in the Hill, Colter Harper looks at how jazz shaped the neighbourhood and created a way of life.

Autor

Colter Harper is an ethnomusicologist and musician whose creative and scholarly work explores jazz, American nightlife, and the music of West Africa. Harper served as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Ghana from 2018 to 2020 and has performed as a guitarist, including with the rock band Rusted Root. He is currently a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Music at the University at Buffalo.

Produktdetails

• American Made Music Series
• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781496849861
• ISBN-10: 1496849868
• Artikelnr.: 69928937