Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans. From the seed first planted by slave dances held in Congo Square and nurtured by early ensembles led by Buddy Belden and Joe "King" Oliver, jazz began its long winding odyssey across America and around the world, giving flower to a thousand diff...(展开全部)

作者：泰德•乔亚（Ted Gioia，1957— ） 美国爵士钢琴家、音乐史学家、爵士乐资深评论家。《爵士音乐家百科全书》主编，斯坦福大学爵士乐研究项目的创始人之一。著有《如何听爵士》《爵士乐标准曲》《爵士乐史》等相关书籍十余种并屡获殊荣。 译者：李剑敏 1999年毕业于厦门大学新闻传播系国际新闻专业。历任中国国际广播电台、《中国新闻周刊》、《凤凰周刊》、美国《体育画报》中文版记者、编辑。现为出版人，业余从事翻译，翻译作品近百种。

Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly port...(展开全部)

Product Description The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings is firmly established as the world's leading guide to recorded jazz, a mine of fascinating information and a source of insightful – often wittily trenchant – criticism. This is something rather different: Brian Morton (who taught American history at UEA) has picked out the 1000 best recordings that all jazz fans should ha...(展开全部)

德沃夏克 MaxDvorak (1874-1921)，维也纳美术史学派的后起之秀，继维克霍夫和李格尔之后最重要的学者。在学派传统基础上，他以自己精湛的学术研究，形成了一种独特的研究方法，被后人称为"作为精神史的美术史"，其要旨可以表述为：要理解任何一个时期的艺术，关键是要 了解这个时期的精神史。

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from t...(展开全部)

托妮·莫里森（Toni Morrlson，1931～）美国黑人女作家。生于俄亥俄州钢城洛里恩，父亲是蓝领工人，母亲在白人家帮佣。1949 年她以优异成绩考入当时专为黑人开设的霍华德大学，攻读英语和古典文学。大学毕业后，又入康奈尔大学专攻福克纳和沃尔夫的小说，并以此获硕士学泣。此后，她在德克萨斯南方大学和霍德华大学任教。1966年，她在纽约兰多姆出版社担任高级编辑，曾为拳王穆罕默德·阿里自传和一些青年黑人作家的作品的出版竭尽全力。她所主编的《黑人之书》，记叙了美国黑人三百年历史，被称为美国黑人史的百科全书。70年代起，她先后在纽约州立大学、耶鲁大学和巴尔德学院讲授美国黑人文学，并为《纽约时报书评周报》撰写过3O篇高质量的书评文章，1987年起出任普林斯顿大学教授，讲授文学创作。莫里森可以说是一位学者型的小说家。 莫里森的主要成就在于...(展开全部)