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Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

Jazz Jennings

Permission to use the following images is gratefully acknowledged: Jazz Jennings with Oprah Winfrey in photo insert 2, courtesy of Harpo, Inc./George Burns; Jazz Jennings and family with President Barack Obama on this page and in photo ...
Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen

Jazz Jennings

"--Bustle Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents.
Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings

Misfit Children: An Inquiry into Childhood Belongings

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Jennifer Cooper and Natalie Finn, “Jazz Jennings Can't Wait to Meet Caitlyn Jenner: 'I Would Tell Her How Proud I Am,'” ... Aurelie Corinthios and Regan Alexander, “Jazz Jennings on 'Role Model' Caitlyn Jenner at the ESPYs: 'She's Really ...
All Our Churches of Claiborne County, Tennessee

All Our Churches of Claiborne County, Tennessee

Vola Noah

... HENRY DAVID GIBSON DEELAH HENRY NILA JOHNSON IDA JENNINGS AUDRA JENNINGS BE'I'I'Y JENNINGS RICHARD JENNINGS BILL JENNINGS RANDY JENNINGS TONY JENNINGS EDWINA JENNINGS SHARREN JENNINGS ...
Jazz Jennings: Voice for Lgbtq Youth

Jazz Jennings: Voice for Lgbtq Youth

Ellen Rodger

A groundbreaking advocate for transgender youth and LGBTQ rights, Jazz Jennings is one of the first youth to speak publicly about her experiences as a transgender individual.
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life

Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life

Lynn Sherr

I mean, he publicized Jazz@Jennings because that was a big moneymaker for charity. But otherwise, he was not part of that. GRETCHEN BABAROVIC: There was a group in the Hamptons called the Bridgehampton Child and Recreation ...
I Am Jazz

I Am Jazz

Jessica Herthel

The story of a transgender child based on the real-life experience of Jazz Jennings, who has become a spokesperson for transkids everywhere "This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids ...
An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the ...

An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the ...

Jack E. Davis

Vance, May Mann Jennings, 84—86; Vance, “May Mann Jennings,” 10—12; Bryan Jennings to May Jennings, 2 June 1915, William S. Jennings to May Jennings, 3 June 1915, both in MMJP, box 6. 29. May Mann Jennings, “Parks and Natural ...
Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits with Art Print

Jazz ABZ: An A to Z Collection of Jazz Portraits with Art Print

Wynton Marsalis

Profiles twenty-six of the jazz greats of all time, from Count Basie to Louis Armstrong, through a poetic review of their work, their life stories, and their greatest hits by one of today's top jazz performers.
Jazz guitar harmony: take the mystery out of jazz harmony

Jazz guitar harmony: take the mystery out of jazz harmony

Jody Fisher

This comprehensive study of harmony is a must for any guitarist interested in jazz. This book explains the essentials of jazz harmony in a friendly, easy-to-understand manner.
Jazz Notes: Improvisations on Blue Like Jazz

Jazz Notes: Improvisations on Blue Like Jazz

Donald Miller

Jazz Notes is the literary equivalent of a remix CD-cool sound-bytes strategically crafted from Don Miller's classic Blue Like Jazz, combined with brand new material that offers the author's fans an inside look at some of the unforgettable ...
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life

Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life

Lynn Sherr

Peter Jennings was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from cancer in 2005. For many Americans, he was the voice and face that gave shape and meaning to every day's news. But who was Peter Jennings really?
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary ...

Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary ...

Robin D. G. Kelley

This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the ...
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary ...

Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary ...

Robin D. G. Kelley

This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musical convergences and crossings altered the ...
Jennings-McMillan, Faulling-Whaley-Bluer, and other early ...

Jennings-McMillan, Faulling-Whaley-Bluer, and other early ...

Carnice Jennings Groves

... County Free Library, Charleston, S.C. [7] - South Carolina Wills, S.C. Dept of Archives and History, Columbia, S.C. [8] - " Jennings and Allied Families, Documented Notes", Beatrice Mackey Doughtie; l96l, Bowen Press Inc., Decatur, Ga.
Jazz: The American Theme Song

Jazz: The American Theme Song

James Lincoln Collier

Questioning everything we think we know about jazz--its origins, its innovative geniuses, the importance of improvisation and spontaneous inspiration in a performance--and the jazz world, these ten provocative essays on the music and its ...
From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and ...

From Jazz to Swing: African-American Jazz Musicians and ...

Thomas J. Hennessey

12; J. Reid Badger, "James Reese Europe," pp. 51-56; Brian Rust, Jazz Records, 1897-1942, p. 512. Six Brown Brothers and Jim Europe's bands are both on Steppin' On The Gas (NW 269). Europe's version of "Down Home Rag" is on Jazz : ...
Timekeepers: The Great Jazz Drummers

Timekeepers: The Great Jazz Drummers

Leslie Gourse

Discusses the role of drumming in jazz and surveys some of the greatest jazz drummers in history, from Warren Baby Dodds and Arthur Zutty Singleton to Tony Williams and Elvin Jones.
Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar, ...

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar, ...

Jody Fisher

Expand the boundaries of your knowledge and improvisation skills with this exciting book, which picks up where the improv lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off.
Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar -- ...

Complete Jazz Guitar Method: Mastering Jazz Guitar -- ...

Jody Fisher

Expand the boundaries of your knowledge and improvisation skills with this exciting book, which picks up where the improv lessons in Intermediate Jazz Guitar leave off.
Annual Review of Jazz Studies

Annual Review of Jazz Studies

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Goodman, Basie, and Duke Ellington. Which is not to say that Whiteman is a jazz giant on the same level with them. A recent book published by scholar Joshua Berrett, “Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz” . . . , goes rather ...
Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the ...

Knowing Jazz: Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the ...

Ken Prouty

Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community.
Soul Jazz: Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975

Soul Jazz: Jazz in the Black Community, 1945-1975

Bob Porter

Soul Jazz is a history of jazz and its reception in the black community in the period from the end of World War II until the end of the Vietnam War.
Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man

Doc: The Story of a Birmingham Jazz Man

Frank Adams

Doc is the autobiography of jazz elder statesman Frank “Doc” Adams, highlighting his role in Birmingham, Alabama’s, historic jazz scene and tracing his personal adventure that parallels, in many ways, the story and spirit of jazz ...
The Total Jazz Guitarist

The Total Jazz Guitarist

Jody Fisher

Whether this is your first jazz guitar book or you've been studying for years, this is the one place to get everything you need to make you a great jazz guitarist. A CD demonstrating the examples in the book is included.
Deep Down in Music: The Art of the Great Jazz Bassists

Deep Down in Music: The Art of the Great Jazz Bassists

Leslie Gourse

Presents the lives and artistry of notable jazz bassists, traces their influence on one another, and investigates the impact of various innovations on the development of jazz music.
Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of ...

Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of ...

Gregory Clark

Clark has found that jazz, as an activity and a cultural form, goes a long way toward illustrating that process. Jazz is often described as democratic. Burke s rhetorical and aesthetic ideas explain how this is so.
Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana

Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra: Five Musical Years in Ghana

Steven Feld

Back to our jazz and race conversation: ''I read a newspaper account of a university lecture by Robin Kelley, where he referred to you as the 'Invisible Man' of jazz.∞≠ Are you comfortable being read through the metaphor of Ralph Ellison's ...
Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz

Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz

Tom Morgan

This volume contains rare photographs from the Louisiana State Museum's Jazz Collection, lovingly assembled and accompanied by captions written by award-winning author and Jazz Roots radio show host Tom Morgan.
The St. Olaf Choir: a narrative

The St. Olaf Choir: a narrative

Joseph M. Shaw

... L. to R.: Hee Sung Keel, Lisa Jennings, Mrs. Keel. Front row, L. to R.: Mark Jennings, Jane and Ellen Keel, Carolyn and Kenneth Jennings. Dr. Hee Sung Keel taught In the St. Olaf Religion Department from 1977 to 1982. Mrs. Keel worked in ...

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