Browse: Duke University Press (publisher), Jazz & Blues

Bruce's deft and thoughtful touch invites readers to dream loudly among a compendium of radical Black artists that few others would think about collectively. With subjects that range from early-twentieth-century... — Bookforum More…

A phenomenal interviewee. . . . Whether [Steve Lacy] was making bold predictions on future directions of the music, describing his fascinating projects, laying forth broad challenges to himself... — Downbeat More…

What Moore describes is not a simple love affair between a music maligned at home and a country destined to embrace it. . . . Navigating broad territories, she moves from an era when African-American... — The Wire More…

In this concise musical journey of the mise-en-scene of blues music performances, McGinley takes readers to the South, starting with the tent shows of an earlier era and concluding with the current... — Choice More…

This collection of thought-provoking essays is as much about inclusion, looking at jazz as a genre relevant to all, as it is futurism. Evolved from the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, the publication... — Jazzwise More…

A groundbreaking anthology — Downbeat More…

Perhaps the book's most important contribution is the detailed look into emerging discourses of national identity and its entanglements with complex, and sometimes contradictory ideologies of... — Society for American Music More…

In this concise musical journey of the mise-en-scene of blues music performances, McGinley takes readers to the South, starting with the tent shows of an earlier era and concluding with the current... — Choice More…

A rather important book that seeks for the first time-or the first time with quite this level of intellectual rigor-to make clear the defining connections between improvisation and rights, and... — The Wire More…