Duke Ellington Studies
- Editor: Howland, John
Few publications among the literature on Duke Ellington to have appeared in recent years ... can claim to have shed as much light on their subject as the impressive collection of essays assembled... — More…
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Contents
- 1. Ellington the entertainer: pageantry and prophecy in Duke Ellington's films Phil Ford;
- 2. Marketing to the middlebrow: reconsidering Ellingtonia, the legacy of early Ellington criticism, and the idea of a 'serious' jazz composer John Howland;
- 3. 'Art or debauchery?': the reception of Ellington in the UK Catherine Tackley;
- 4. 'Nobody was looking': the unparalleled jazz piano legacy of Duke Ellington Bill Dobbins;
- 5. 'People wrap their lunches in them': Duke Ellington and his written music manuscripts Walter van de Leur;
- 6. The moor's revenge: the politics of Such Sweet Thunder David Schiff;
- 7. Duke Ellington in the LP era Gabriel Solis;
- 8. Authentic synthetic hybrid: Ellington's concepts of Africa and its music Carl Woideck;
- 9. 'The mother of all albums': revisiting Ellington's A Drum is a Woman John Wriggle.
