Changing the Tune: The Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival, 1978-1985 - Rilegato

Brewer, Carolyn Glenn

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ISBN 10: 1574416669 ISBN 13: 9781574416664

Casa editrice: Univ of North Texas Pr, 2017

Riassunto

Even though the potential passage of the Equal Rights Amendment had cracked glass ceilings across the country, in 1978 jazz remained a boys’ club. Two Kansas City women, Carol Comer and Dianne Gregg, challenged that inequitable standard. With the support of jazz luminaries Marian McPartland and Leonard Feather, inaugural performances by Betty Carter, Mary Lou Williams, an unprecedented All-Star band of women, Toshiko Akiyoshi’s band, plus dozens of Kansas City musicians and volunteers, a casual conversation between two friends evolved into the annual Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival (WJF).  
But with success came controversy. Anxious to satisfy fans of all jazz styles, WJF alienated some purists. The inclusion of male sidemen brought on protests. The egos of established, seasoned players unexpectedly clashed with those of newcomers. Undaunted, Comer, Gregg, and WJF’s ensemble of supporters continued the cause for eight years. They fought for equality not with speeches but with swing, without protest signs but with bebop.
For the first book about this groundbreaking festival, Carolyn Glenn Brewer interviewed dozens of people and dove deeply into the archives. This book is an important testament to the ability of two friends to emphatically prove jazz genderless, thereby changing the course of jazz history.

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Informazioni sull'autore

CAROLYN GLENN BREWER is a longtime music educator who has written for Jam Magazine and published two books on the 1957 tornado in Ruskin Heights, Missouri. She has played clarinet in bands, chamber groups, and orchestras throughout the Kansas City area. She lives in Kansas City.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of North Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1574416669
• ISBN 13: 9781574416664
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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