Jazz Hot No. 129: Museum Object and Cultural History
Jazz Hot No. 129: Date: 1958. Published by: Jazz Hot, French, founded 1935. Subject of: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American, 1915 - 1973.
The object in the museum catalogue
An issue of the French magazine Jazz Hot from February 1958. The cover has a red background and features a black and white photographic image of Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She is shown in profile from the shoulders up, looking up and away from the camera. She is wearing a dark colored shirt and scarf and guitar shaped earrings. Above the image, at the top left of the magazine is the title [jazz] in large white block letters with [HOT] in smaller white letters against a black bar background. The magazine has 48 pages. An article on sister Rosetta Tharpe is on pages 16 and 17.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1958
- Published by: Jazz Hot, French, founded 1935
- Subject of: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American, 1915 - 1973
- Type: magazines (periodicals)
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in. (27.8 × 21.5 cm)
- Place printed: Marseilles, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blues (Music)
- Topic: Gospel (Music)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Mass media
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2014.98.9
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Gayle Wald
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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