Women in Jazz

WOMEN IN JAZZ: The Women, The Legends & Their Fight

Sammy Stein • Music / Non-fiction / Women's Studies / Jazz History

Book Description

This is the book that started it all — Sammy Stein's groundbreaking exploration of women's contributions to jazz, from the early 20th century to the present day. WOMEN IN JAZZ: THE WOMEN, THE LEGENDS & THEIR FIGHT takes a wide-angle lens to a story that standard jazz histories have too often cropped: the women who not only performed the music but produced it, arranged it, publicized it, taught it, and fought for their place in an industry built to exclude them.

Stein approaches her subject with a journalist's rigour and a musician's ear. Through extensive interviews with agents, arrangers, composers, public relations professionals, media members, educators, and — of course — performers spanning generations and international boundaries, she assembles a mosaic of experience that is by turns inspiring, infuriating, and illuminating. The sexism of yesterday and today; reactions to successful women; ongoing change in attitudes — these themes emerge organically from the voices of the women themselves, spliced with Stein's own sharp descriptive analysis.

Featuring 56 photographs, this volume is a visual as well as intellectual feast — a book that belongs on the shelf of every jazz enthusiast, every student of music history, and every reader who believes that the fight for recognition is itself a form of art.

Pull Quotes

\"Stein approaches this broad topic in a scientific manner, interviewing and grouping emergent themes into categories… and splices in first hand quotes between her own descriptive interpretations.\"

Paul Acquaro, The Free Jazz Collective

\"While I would have been interested in hearing from more voices from the experimental side of the idiom, Women in Jazz is a fair and even-handed report from the field, with a welcome accentuation of the positive.\"

Paul Acquaro, The Free Jazz Collective

Recognition

• JazzTimes Distaff Award
• 3rd place, JazzTimes 2019 Readers Poll
• JazzTimes Recommendation List
• Featured on the JazzTimes Gearhead List

Author Bio

See WOMEN IN JAZZ — SPECIAL EDITION (above).

Book Details

Also by This Author

WOMEN IN JAZZ — SPECIAL EDITION; IN THEIR OWN WORDS — INTERVIEWS WITH WOMEN IN JAZZ (all published by 8th House Publishing)

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