Dan Burley's Jive

ISBN-13: 9780875806235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 220 str.

Dan Burley; Thomas Aiello

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These two rare books are now available in one volume, including all original illustrations. This retro volume combines two brilliant and long out-of-print books, Dan Burley's Original Handbook of Harlen Jive (1944) and Diggeth Thou? (1959) by Dan Burley. Burley was a journalist and sportswriter who worked for various African American newspapers and magazines, including the Chicago Defender, Chicago Crusader, New York New Amsterdam News, Jet, and Ebony in both Chicago and New York in the 1920s through the 1950s. Although he did not invent jive, throughout the 1940s Burley's handbook fostered it, popularized it, and broadened its use beyond the cloister of the jazz community. Jive acted as an invisible conduit between the new urban linguistics and the inevitably square world. Burley's goal was to inform readers about this new language, as well as to entertain.