PRESENTATION BOOK “JAZZ:A HISTORY OF HEROES” – MURRU LIBRARY – CAGLIARI – THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22

Thursday, November 22, at 18:00, at the Library Murru, in San Benedetto 12 / C in Cagliari, writer and researcher Matthew Tuveri presents the book of Louis Cancedda “Jazz: a history of heroes. Fifteen players of Afro-American music “(Printed by Circle of Readers equilibria Elmas – Presidium of the Book).

The Jazz has directed his gaze lyrical about the outside world, it was a sign and a metaphor for a community in perpetual conflict with another, was instrumental in rebellion and at the same time of fellowship and communion. Hundreds of men, through the scream of a saxophone, the use of a voice, the beat of a rhythm (sometimes tribal), the production of sound chips, they never stopped, especially in the last century, to talk about their dignity with a universal artistic language.

The heroes mentioned Cancedda in the book are those who have had an important place in the history and evolution of this great twentieth-century music.

Luigi Cancedda, experienced and passionate about jazz, he has collaborated with the 1984 and 1985 editions of the event Jazz in Sardinia in collaboration with the late Alberto Rodriquez. You are busy directing theater company Theatre of Mirrors between 1987 and 1988 under the direction of Marco Gagliardo.Dal 2007 is actively engaged in the production and dissemination of reading at the Circle of Readers Elmas – Equilibria

Matthew Tuveri, writer and researcher in Central Europe, is responsible for Gender Studies and collaborates with many Italian and foreign magazines and newspapers as a historian, journalist, web writer and event planner. Keen observer of the world around, is interested in social phenomena, artists and politicians.

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