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Krin Gabbard

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Born

in Charleston, Illinois, The United States

Website

http://www.kringabbard.com

Genre

History, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Garry Wills, Mark Kurlansky, Philip Roth

Member Since

November 2008

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Krin Gabbard is a “come-back” trumpet-player even though he spends most of his time writing books and teaching classes about movies. In recent years, most of his writing has been about jazz. He was born in 1948 in Charleston, a small town in East Central Illinois. He spent the first eighteen years of his life in Charleston, the home of Eastern Illinois University, where both his parents taught. At the University of Chicago, Krin was not skilled enough to play trumpet with the Art Ensemble of Chicago (which actually held auditions at the university), and the local rock bands had no need for trumpets. Mostly he read old books and acted in a few plays. After graduating with a B.A. from Chicago in 1970, Krin went to Indiana University where he ...more

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Average rating: 3.66 · 191 ratings · 16 reviews · 22 distinct works • Similar authors

	Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jazz Among the Discourses 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture 2.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Representing Jazz 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Screening Genders: The American Science Fiction Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series) by Krin Gabbard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Eberwein (Contributor), Professor Chris Holmlund (Contributor) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Screening Genders: The American Science Fiction Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series) by Krin Gabbard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), William Luhr (Revised by), Robert Eberwein (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charles Mingus 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[(Screening Genders)] [Author: Krin Gabbard] published on (July, 2008) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars