Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original - Softcover

Kelley, Robin D. G.

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9781439190463: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1439190461 ISBN 13: 9781439190463
Publisher: Free Press, 2010

Synopsis

From the mind of brilliant historian Robin Kelley comes the first full biography of legendary jazz musician Thelonious Monk, including full access to the family's archives, dozens of interviews, and 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.

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About the Author

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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Publisher
Free Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1439190461
ISBN 13 
9781439190463
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
624
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