As Serious As Your Life - Val Wilmer

As Serious As Your Life

Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
432 Seiten
2018 | Main - Classic Edition
Serpent's Tail (Verlag)
978-1-78816-071-1 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by the renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams.
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture.

Placing the achievements of African-American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and social context, Wilmer evokes an era of extraordinary innovation and experimentation that continues to inspire musicians today.

As vital now as when it was first published in 1977, As Serious As Your Life is the essential story of one of the most dynamic musical movements of the twentieth century.

Val Wilmer is an internationally acclaimed photographer, journalist, author and black music historian who has been documenting African-American music since 1959. In that time she has interviewed and photographed almost every significant figure in post-war jazz, blues and R&B, from Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk to Sun Ra and Albert Ayler via Muddy Waters and Aretha Franklin. As a photographer, her work features in the permanent collections of the British Library, the V&A Museum and the National Portrait Gallery; as a writer and historian, she has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography and the New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz. She lives in London.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Serpent's Tail Classics
Vorwort Richard Williams
Zusatzinfo Sixteen-page plate section featuring original photography from Val Wilmer's archives
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 130 x 198 mm
Gewicht 322 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10 1-78816-071-1 / 1788160711
ISBN-13 978-1-78816-071-1 / 9781788160711
Zustand Neuware
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