Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings
by Ellison, Ralph , O'Meally, Robert G
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0375760237
- ISBN 13
- 9780375760235
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Synopsis
Ralph Ellison was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. He was educated at the Frederick Douglass School and at Tuskegee Institute, where he studied the trumpet and music composition. Ellison moved to New York City in 1936 and lived in Harlem until his death in 1994. His novel Invisible Man (1952) was the winner of the National Book Award and one of the most important and influential American novels of the twentieth century. Ellison was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1975 and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1985. Robert G. O'Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the founder and director of the Center for Jazz Studies. He is a leading interpreter of the dynamics of jazz in American culture. O'Meally is the author of several books, including Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday and The Craft of Ralph Ellison . In 1999, he received a Grammy nomination for his work as coproducer of the five-CD set The Jazz Singers . He lives in New York.
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- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385104
- Title
- Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings
- Author
- Ellison, Ralph , O'Meally, Robert G
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375760237
- ISBN 13
- 9780375760235
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Music, JazznBlues, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.