Hobsbawm, E. J. 1917-
Uncommon people : resistance, rebellion and jazz / Eric Hobsbawm. - New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, c1998. - viii, 360 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[The radical tradition] -- Tom Paine --The machine-breakers -- Political shoemakers -- Labour traditions -- The making of the working class, 1870-1914 -- Victorian values -- Man and woman : images on the left -- Birth of a holiday : the First of May -- Socialism and the avant-garde, 1880-1914 -- The Left's megaphone -- [Country people] -- Peasants and politics -- Peasant land occupations -- The bandit Giuliano -- [Contemporary history] -- Vietnam and the dynamics of guerrilla war -- May 1968 -- The rules of violence -- Revolution and sex -- Epitaph for a villain : Roy Cohn -- [Jazz] -- The Caruso of jazz -- Count Basie -- The Duke -- Jazz comes to Europe -- The people's swing -- Jazz since 1960 -- Billie Holliday -- The old world and the new : 500 years after Columbus.
1565845595
Jazz--History and criticism.
Radicalism--History.
Labor movement--History.
Working class--History.
Social history.
HN13 / .H63 1998
331.25/09
Uncommon people : resistance, rebellion and jazz / Eric Hobsbawm. - New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, c1998. - viii, 360 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[The radical tradition] -- Tom Paine --The machine-breakers -- Political shoemakers -- Labour traditions -- The making of the working class, 1870-1914 -- Victorian values -- Man and woman : images on the left -- Birth of a holiday : the First of May -- Socialism and the avant-garde, 1880-1914 -- The Left's megaphone -- [Country people] -- Peasants and politics -- Peasant land occupations -- The bandit Giuliano -- [Contemporary history] -- Vietnam and the dynamics of guerrilla war -- May 1968 -- The rules of violence -- Revolution and sex -- Epitaph for a villain : Roy Cohn -- [Jazz] -- The Caruso of jazz -- Count Basie -- The Duke -- Jazz comes to Europe -- The people's swing -- Jazz since 1960 -- Billie Holliday -- The old world and the new : 500 years after Columbus.
1565845595
Jazz--History and criticism.
Radicalism--History.
Labor movement--History.
Working class--History.
Social history.
HN13 / .H63 1998
331.25/09