{"product_id":"9780571320110","title":"The Jazz Scene","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1955-65 the historian Eric Hobsbawm took the pseudonym 'Francis Newton' and wrote a monthly column for the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e  on jazz - music he had loved ever since discovering it as a boy in 1933  ('the year Adolf Hitler took power in Germany'). Hobsbawm's column led  to his writing a critical history, \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Scene\u003c\/i\u003e (1959). This  enhanced edition from 1993 adds later writings by Hobsbawm in which he  meditates further 'on why jazz is not only a marvellous noise but a  central concern for anyone concerned with twentieth-century society and  the twentieth-century arts.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   'All the greats are covered in  passing (Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday), while further space is given  to Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, and  Sidney Bechet ... Perhaps Hobsbawm's tastiest comments are about the  business side and work ethics, where his historian's eye strips the jazz  scene down to its commercial spine.'  \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157887893744,"sku":"9780571320110","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571320110_p0.jpg?v=1763719120","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571320110","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}