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Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story

Jenkins, Willard

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Biographies GeneralBlack American StudiesJazz

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 1478019034
ISBN13: 9781478019039
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 2 2022
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Despite the fact that most of jazz's major innovators and performers have been African American, the overwhelming majority of jazz journalists, critics, and authors have been and continue to be white men. No major mainstream jazz publication has ever had a black editor or publisher. Ain't But a Few of Us presents over two dozen candid dialogues with black jazz critics and journalists ranging from Greg Tate, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Robin D. G. Kelley to Tammy Kernodle, Ron Welburn, and John Murph. They discuss the obstacles to access for black jazz journalists, outline how they contend with the world of jazz writing dominated by white men, and point out that these racial disparities are not confined to jazz but hamper their efforts at writing about other music genres as well. Ain't But a Few of Us also includes an anthology section, which reprints classic essays and articles from black writers and musicians such as LeRoi Jones, Archie Shepp, A. B. Spellman, and Herbie Nichols.

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