Morroe Berger (1917–1981)
Auteur de The Arab world today
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Morroe Berger
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1917-06-25
- Date de décès
- 1981-04-08
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Études
- City College of New York (BSS ∙ 1940)
Columbia University (AM, PhD) - Organisations
- United States Army (1941-1945)
American Sociological Association
Eastern Sociological Society
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 56
- Popularité
- #291,557
- Évaluation
- 5.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 1
Berger follows Carter's career through his experience arranging for other leaders' bands, playing in those bands, developing as a soloist, leading his own bands, spending time in Europe, writing for television and movies, changing to small combos as big bands became unfeasible, and further development. He speaks of Carter the person and describes many interactions, but he does not go into detail about Carter's marriages and divorces or other intimate details. The focus is on Carter the musician and public figure, and how his experiences reflected and affected the state of jazz, the music business, and society. Berger ends with a chapter describing Carter's participation in workshops and other formats for teaching jazz, including at Princeton. He provides hundreds of footnotes and a detailed index. I particularly enjoyed a lot of the pictures showing Carter with his bands and other individual musicians.… (plus d'informations)