ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Jersey] Hardcover First Edition Fine in a Fine dust jacket. ; 10.1 X 6.9 X 1.1 inches; 320 pages.
[Pomona, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]
Show/Hide image

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ] Hardcover Hardcover. Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research It may be that the song most baby boomers identify from July 1956 is a simple twelve-bar blues, hyped on national television by a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley and his handlers. But it is a very different song, with its elongated fourteen-bar choruses of rhythm and dissonance, played on the night of July 7, 1956, by a fifty-seven-year-old Duke Ellington and his big band that got everybody on their feet and moving as one. More than fifty years later, Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, recorded at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, still makes a profound statement about postwar Americahow we got there and where it all went.Backstory in Blue is a behind-the-scenes look at this epic moment in American cultural history. It is the story of who and what made Ellingtons composition so compelling and how one piece of music reflected the feelings and shaped the sensibilities of the postwar generation. As John Fass Morton explains, it was music expressed as much by those who performed offstage as by those who performed on. Written from the point of view of the audience, this unique account draws on interviews with fans and music professionals of all kinds who were there and whose lives were touched, and in some cases changed, ...

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick] Hardcover larger 8vo pp.304. heavy book additional postage will apply
[Edmonton, AB, Canada] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover DJ in archival cover.
[Garrison, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Date: 2008. First edition. hardcover. very good/very good. larger 8vo. pp.304. heavy book additional postage will apply 2008. Rutgers University Press ISBN 0813542820 9780813542829 [CA]

Rutgers University Press 2008 None ed. Hardcover Fine in Fine jacket DJ in archival cover.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Date: 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+; with a Very Good+ dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, illustrated. ; Flat signed on the title page by the author, John Fass Morton. ; 10.10 X 6.90 X 1.10 inches; 320 pages; Signed by Author. 2008. Rutgers University Press ISBN 0813542820 9780813542829 [US]

Rutgers University Press, Date: 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2008. Rutgers University Press ISBN 0813542820 9780813542829 [US]

Rutgers University Press, Date: 2008-07-31. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2008. Rutgers University Press ISBN 0813542820 9780813542829 [US]

Rutgers University Press 2008 None ed. Hardcover Fair Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Rutgers University Press 2008-07-31 None ed. Hardcover New Size: 10x6x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.71
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition.
[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed
[Denver, CO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
[Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover
[Humble, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.
[Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

ISBN10: 0813542820, ISBN13: 9780813542829, [publisher: Rutgers University Press] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

Rutgers Univ Pr 2008 None ed. Hardcover New 304 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.00 inches.