{"id":150,"date":"2006-09-27T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","slug":"just-one-of-the-reasons-i-enjoy-being-at-uvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Just one of the reasons I enjoy being at UVM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThanks to Nancy Welch for pointing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20061002\/yaffe\">this terrific (and lengthy!) review<\/a> of our colleague John Gennari&#8217;s great new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blowin-Hot-Cool-Jazz-Critics\/dp\/0226289222\/ref=sr_11_1\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8\">Blowin&#8217; Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics<\/a>. Critical acclaim does not get much better than this:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:20pt;\">\n<em>And so Gennari&#8217;s book does for jazz critics what most of them were unable to do for themselves, but with a postmodern twist: The scholar demystifies and historicizes the journalists. The first sustained scholarly book exclusively about jazz criticism&#8211;and, not least, about the passions that have driven and surrounded it&#8211;Blowin&#8217; Hot and Cool is thorough, absorbing and original, an obsessive study of professional obsessives that will circumvent the need for any other.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI have to add this one to my list of books to read&#8230;. Seriously, I could spend an entire year just focusing on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Road-Prosperity-Stories-Nancy-Welch\/dp\/0870744992\/sr=1-7\/qid=1159384418\/ref=sr_1_7\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tour-Dreams-Wolf-Girl-Novel\/dp\/0618340777\/sr=1-8\/qid=1159384318\/ref=sr_1_8\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Summer-Lake-Selected-Southern-Messenger\/dp\/080712382X\/sr=1-5\/qid=1159384318\/ref=sr_1_5\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">great<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Angelhead-Brothers-Descent-into-Madness\/dp\/0226067645\/sr=1-1\/qid=1159384355\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Some-Best-Friends-Interracial-Friendships\/dp\/0060082771\/sr=1-1\/qid=1159384284\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">written<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Feminine-No-Psychoanalysis-Canon-Culture\/dp\/0791448746\/sr=1-2\/qid=1159384373\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">by<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Abject-Terrors-Surveying-Postmodern-Horror\/dp\/0820470562\/sr=1-3\/qid=1159384516\/ref=sr_1_3\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">people<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hoops-Poems-Major-Jackson\/dp\/0393059375\/sr=1-1\/qid=1159384403\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">in<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Leaving-Saturn-Poems-Major-Jackson\/dp\/082032342X\/sr=1-2\/qid=1159384403\/ref=pd_bbs_2\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">my<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Introduction-African-Prose-Narrative\/dp\/1592211372\/sr=1-2\/qid=1159384573\/ref=sr_1_2\/002-7743673-9280046?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">department<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Nancy Welch for pointing out this terrific (and lengthy!) review of our colleague John Gennari&#8217;s great new book, Blowin&#8217; Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. Critical acclaim does not get much better than this: And so Gennari&#8217;s book does for jazz critics what most of them were unable to do for themselves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}