“Fashion and Jazz” addresses several underexplored areas of jazz culture, such as modern dandyism and the link between drug use and glamorous dress, and as such provides an history of fashion’s dialogue with African-American art and style.
[wptab name=’USA’ active=’active’] Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion and style aesthetic. Fashion and Jazz is the first study to identify the behaviours, signs and meanings that defined this newly evolving subculture.  |
 Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation [Format Kindle] Alphonso McClendon (Auteur)  |
Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation (Dress, Body, Culture) [Formato Kindle] Alphonso McClendon (Autore)  |
Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation (Dress, Body, Culture) [Versión Kindle] Alphonso McClendon (Autor)  |
| Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation (Dress, Body, Culture) Paperback – 29 Jan 2015 – Born in the late 19th century, jazz gained mainstream popularity during a volatile period of racial segregation and gender inequality. It was in these adverse conditions that jazz performers discovered the power of dress as a visual tool used to defy mainstream societal constructs, shaping a new fashion and style aesthetic. Fashion and Jazz is the first study to identify the behaviours, signs and meanings that defined this newly evolving subcultural style |
Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural Improvisation (Dress, Body, Culture) (Englisch) Taschenbuch – 29. Januar 2015 von Alphonso McClendon (Autor)  |
Drexel University
How Jazz Influenced Fashion: New Book to Launch During Jazz Appreciation Month in April “This book demonstrates how two connected art forms exemplify freedom of expression, improvisational showmanship, pursuits of modernity and cultural transformation in America and globally,” said McClendon. “Without jazz – its architects, struggles for equality and the multicultural roots and style of the music – contemporary society would be less connected.” […]
The Philadelphia Tribune
“For example, the disruption of established aesthetics, the subversive representation of popular music and dress, the eccentric and elite manner of performers, traits of fashionable addiction and strivings for equality continue to be fastened to new forms of music and contemporary artists. This book is a guide for that discourse.” […]
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