In recent years, musicological research proved how relevant have been, besides African sources, the European roots of jazz. These can
Author: Luca Cerchiari
Hugues Panassié to Joachim Berendt: the critic as “artist”. Aesthetic debates, self-promotion and marketing strategies
The author deals with the emergence of jazz criticism in the early 1920s and 1930s in France, the USA, Italy,
Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha (1911), the “first” black opera. A new ethnoanthropological and musicological analysis
More than one century after its birth and its unlucky efforts to stage it properly, Scott Joplin’s complex and beautiful
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Tonality, which began in Europe, challenges the Second Viennese School of Schöenberg, Webern and Berg, again strongly reinforces the American