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Anna Celenza

Member profile details

Membership level

Jazz Journalist (professional- voting member)

First name

Anna

Last name

Celenza

City

Baltimore

Country

USA

I am a jazz

writer
other

"Other" means. . .

educator

website/blog URL 1

www.annacelenza.com

Follow me on Twitter at:

JazzItalianStyl

I am the author/producer of

Jazz Italian Style: From Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra

Available at (URL or ISBN #1)

9781316619476

I am also the author/ producer of:

Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite

Available at (URL or ISBN #2)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/238712/duke-ellingtons-nutcracker-suite-by-anna-harwell-celenza-author-don-tate-illustrator/

Other key Publications/Productions

The Cambridge Companion to George Gershwin

My interests in jazz are:

Trans-national jazz (especially Italy/USA relations)
Jazz and Politics
Jazz and Public Policy
Jazz History

More about what I do:

In addition to publishing books and articles about Jazz, I am a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and in the Musicology Department at Peabody Conservatory.