Screen LibraryThe history of jazz
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | 444 p.: ill., ports. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780195399707 (pbk.) 0195399706 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | J647 |
| CLC: | J647.695 |
| Call Number: | J647.695/G495/2nd.ed. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 399]-402), discography (p. 403-418), and index. Prehistory of jazz -- New Orleans jazz -- The Jazz Age -- Harlem -- The Swing Era -- Modern jazz -- The fragmentation of jazz styles -- Freedom and fusion -- Traditionalists and postmodernists -- Jazz in the new millennium. Ted Gioia's History of Jazz has been universally hailed as a classic--acclaimed by jazz critics and fans around the world. Now Gioia brings his magnificent work completely up-to-date, drawing on the latest research and revisiting virtually every aspect of the music, past and present. Gioia tells the story of jazz as it had never been told before, in a book that brilliantly portrays the legendary jazz players, the breakthrough styles, and the world in which it evolved. Here are the giants of jazz and the great moments of jazz history--Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington at the |