Review of John Gennari. 2006. Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press

John Gennari’s Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics is a comprehensive history of American jazz criticism since the 1930s, centered on the foremost cultural achievement of the jazz critical field: “jazz’s canonization as an art”. The conceptual and historical framework of Blowin’ Hot and Cool...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paul Steinbeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2007-09-01
Series:Current Musicology
Online Access:https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/5110