Thelonious Monk

Zusatztext "An honest and eloquent treatment of one of our most important artists! Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a stunning tour de force! It is the most comprehensive treatment of Monk's life to date. Furthermore! in Monk's story! Kelley has found the perfect medium to shed light on a nation's and a people's history and persistent quest for freedom. In so doing he has given us a book that is as bold! brilliant! and beautiful as Monk and his music." FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN! author of If You Can't Be Free! Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday Informationen zum Autor Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. From 2003-2006! he was the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia Univeristy. From 1994-2003! he was a professor of history and Africana Studies at New York University as well the chairman of NYU's history department from 2002-2003. One of the youngest tenured professors in a full academic discipline--at the age of 32--Kelley has spent most of his career exploring American and African-American history with a particular emphasis on African-American musical culture! including jazz and hip-hop. Klappentext The first full biography of Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews. Zusammenfassung The first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk! written by a brilliant historian! with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews. Now updated with an afterword for Monk's 2017 centennial. Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed! gripping saga of an artist's struggle to make it without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that! like its subject! reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century. To his fans! he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors! he was temperamental! eccentric! taciturn! or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations! ushering in the birth of bebop and establishing Monk as one of America's greatest com­posers. Elegantly written and rich with humor and pathos! Thelonious Monk is the definitive work on modern jazz's most original composer. ...

"An honest and eloquent treatment of one of our most important artists, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is a stunning tour de force! It is the most comprehensive treatment of Monk's life to date. Furthermore, in Monk's story, Kelley has found the perfect medium to shed light on a nation's and a people's history and persistent quest for freedom. In so doing he has given us a book that is as bold, brilliant, and beautiful as Monk and his music."
—FARAH JASMINE GRIFFIN, author of If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday

Autorentext

Robin D. G. Kelley teaches History at UCLA and is the author of several books, including Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression.

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The first full biography of Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews.

Zusammenfassung
The first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian, with full access to the family's archives and with dozens of interviews. Now updated with an afterword for Monk’s 2017 centennial.

Thelonious Monk is the critically acclaimed, gripping saga of an artist’s struggle to “make it” without compromising his musical vision. It is a story that, like its subject, reflects the tidal ebbs and flows of American history in the twentieth century. To his fans, he was the ultimate hipster; to his detractors, he was temperamental, eccentric, taciturn, or childlike. His angular melodies and dissonant harmonies shook the jazz world to its foundations, ushering in the birth of “bebop” and establishing Monk as one of America’s greatest com­posers. Elegantly written and rich with humor and pathos, Thelonious Monk is the definitive work on modern jazz’s most original composer.