John Gennari

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John Gennari


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John Gennari is an American Studies-trained U.S. cultural historian and nonfiction writer with specializations in jazz and popular music studies, Italian American cultural studies, food studies, race and ethnic studies, and cultural criticism. He is the author of “Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2006), which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Criticism and the John Cawelti Award for the Best Book in American Culture. He is currently completing a book examining how practices of expressive ethnicity in music, film, sports, cooking, and eating reconfigure our understanding of Italian American culture. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the W.E.B. ...more

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“In this wonderful collection of his occasional writings, world-class guitarist Paul Asbell chronicles his life in music with all the eloquence of one of his scrupulously crafted 12 bar blues solos.
I know of no book that better captures both the quotidian details and the startling magic of music-making at its most dedicated and passionate.

~John Gennari, music historian and University of Vermont English professor”
John Gennari, [Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics] [Author: Gennari, J] [May, 2006]



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