![]() Try to influence listeners' perceptions of democracy, especially in Strong in showing how Ellington used his music and his public image to Survey of the twists and turns of Ellington's career, Cohen is very Travels on behalf of the State Department. Popular music, and the Cold War circumstances that led to his many Harlem Renaissance, the emergence of swing as America's most He demonstrates how the artist's work was shaped byįactors like his upbringing in Washington, DC, his immersion in the Long trajectory of Ellington's career, expanding considerably onĮarlier works, notably 'those by James Lincoln Collier and A. Cohen has produced a model cultural history examining the ![]() What it meant to be an African American in the twentieth century. ![]() Musicians he worked with, and perhaps especially his strong sense of He constantly looked forward toĬreating new compositions and was inspired by the places he visited, the Revivals of his biggest hits, he often challenged them with new materialĪs well, right up until his death. Enough of a showman to favor audiences with regular Performer straddled popular and serious genres during his fifty years in ![]() Jazz (a term he himself never embraced), his work as both composer and $22.50.)ĭuke Ellington was a singular presence in the history of Duke Ellington's America." Retrieved from 2013 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. MLA style: "Duke Ellington's America." The Free Library. ![]()
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