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"Any book on my life would start with my basic philosophy of fighting racial prejudice. I loved jazz, and jazz was my way of doing that," Norman Granz told Tad Hershorn during the final interviews given for this book. Granz, who died in 2001, was iconoclastic, independent, immensely influential, often thoroughly unpleasant-and one of jazz's true giants. Granz played an essential part in bringing jazz to audiences around the world, defying racial and social prejudice as he did so, and demanding that African-American performers be treated equally everywhere they toured. In this definitive biography, Hershorn recounts Granz's story: creator of the legendary jam session concerts known as Jazz at the Philharmonic; founder of the Verve record label; pioneer of live recordings and worldwide jazz concert tours; manager and recording producer for numerous stars, including Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson.

Impresarios --- Jazz --- History and criticism. --- Granz, Norman, --- 20th century jazz. --- african american jazz. --- african american performers. --- billie holiday. --- ella fitzgerald. --- entertainment industry. --- history of jazz. --- history of music. --- influential african americans. --- inspiring musicians. --- jazz and blues. --- jazz at the philharmonic. --- jazz biography. --- jazz icons. --- jazz lovers. --- jazz stars. --- music and theater. --- music lovers. --- musician biography. --- musician books. --- oscar peterson. --- overcoming prejudice. --- post war jazz. --- post wwii. --- racial prejudice. --- social activist. --- social prejudice. --- verve records. --- world of jazz.

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What meaning does the American public attach to images of key black political, social, and cultural figures? Considering photography's role as a means of documenting historical progress, what is the representational currency of these images? How do racial icons "signify"? Nicole R. Fleetwood's answers to these questions will change the way you think about the next photograph that you see depicting a racial event, black celebrity, or public figure. In On Racial Icons, Fleetwood focuses a sustained look on photography in documenting black public life, exploring the ways in which iconic images function as celebrations of national and racial progress at times or as a gauge of collective racial wounds in moments of crisis. Offering an overview of photography's ability to capture shifting race relations, Fleetwood spotlights in each chapter a different set of iconic images in key sectors of public life. She considers flash points of racialized violence in photographs of Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till; the political, aesthetic, and cultural shifts marked by the rise of pop stars such as Diana Ross; and the power and precarity of such black sports icons as Serena Williams and LeBron James; and she does not miss Barack Obama and his family along the way. On Racial Icons is an eye-opener in every sense of the phrase. Images from the book. (http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/pages/Fleetwood.aspx)

Sociology of minorities --- Iconography --- Photography --- visual culture --- United States --- Visual communication --- Mass media --- Art and race. --- African Americans --- Blacks --- African American celebrities. --- African Americans in mass media. --- Black identity --- Blackness (Race identity) --- Negritude --- Race identity of blacks --- Racial identity of blacks --- Ethnicity --- Race awareness --- Race and art --- Ethnopsychology --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Afro-Americans in mass media --- Celebrities, African American --- Celebrities --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Race identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Since 1975 --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Race identity of Black people --- Racial identity of Black people --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black people --- Black Lives Matter, Trayvon Martin, Barack Obama, Diana Ross, Serena James, LeBron James, Emmet Till, Black Madonna, Janel Monea, Paul Robeson, Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr, Michelle Obama, Sasha, Malia, Frederick Douglass, Harry Langdon, Motown, Black Panthers, Angela Davis, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson, Jackson 5, Bessie Smith, Bob Marley, Nelson Mandela:Michael Jordan. --- United States of America

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Imagining Queer Methods' showcases the methodological renaissance unfolding in queer scholarship. This volume brings together emerging and esteemed researchers from all corners of the academy who are defining new directions for the field. From critical race studies, history, journalism, lesbian feminist studies, literature, media studies, and performance studies to anthropology, education, psychology, sociology, and urban planning, this impressive interdisciplinary collection covers topics such as humanistic approaches to reading, theorizing, and interpreting, as well as scientific appeals to measurement, modeling, sampling, and statistics. By bringing together these diverse voices into an unprecedented single volume, Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim inspire us with innovative ways of thinking about methods and methodologies in queer studies.

Gay and lesbian studies --- Queer theory --- Methodology. --- United States. --- AIDS. --- Agnes Martin. --- Billie Holiday. --- Buffie Johnson. --- CLAGS. --- Counternarratives. --- HIV. --- John Keene. --- LGBTQ studies. --- Michael Johnson. --- Pulse nightclub. --- affect. --- attachment genealogy. --- black lesbians. --- black queer studies. --- block chain. --- blues and jazz women. --- chocolate cities. --- demography. --- discursive hustling. --- dyke methods. --- dyke subjectivity. --- eroticism. --- essay-as-performance. --- ethnography. --- feminist methods. --- field formation. --- gayborhoods. --- gender equality. --- gender identity. --- gender-fluid. --- general education. --- ghost-document. --- heteronormativity. --- heterosexism. --- heterosexuality. --- history of science. --- identity categories. --- intersectionality. --- lesbian history. --- methodology. --- methods and methodology. --- migration. --- nonbinary. --- open education resources (OER). --- oral history. --- participatory action research. --- provocations. --- queer South. --- queer history. --- queer mess. --- queer of color interview. --- queer pedagogy. --- queer phenomenology. --- queer studies. --- queer theory. --- queer time. --- redaction as revelation. --- sexual orientation. --- sociology. --- transgender. --- web 2.0. --- women’s experience. --- worldmaking.