{"product_id":"9781453582107","title":"Playing It By Ear","description":"American historian by day and Canadian jazz musician and playwright by night, Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. has also written five original \"jazz-musicals.\" Originally, the idea was for a history professor who played jazz to use the stage to convey a message of some historical importance, augmented by music, as an experiment to see whether the theatre was not a better medium than the classroom. There is no doubting the important fact that the public cast their vote . . .   and quite decidedly in the affirmative, despite it all. Playing It By Ear: The Jazz-Theatre of Clyde R. Forsberg Jr. explores such public events and social issues as the Canadian ice storm of 1998 and the urban-rural divide, Louis Armstrong's \"Black and Blue\" and the relationship between racism and domestic abuse, the death-rattle of patriarchal authority evident at family holiday gatherings, the penis and vagina as twin taboos, and what Forsberg's seven-year trek along the Silk Road (2003-2010) in search of self understanding and renewal would cost him-but also reward him for venturing outside of the box.","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143331758320,"sku":"9781453582107","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453582107_p0.jpg?v=1763857736","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453582107","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}