Record details

• ISBN: 0393021947
• ISBN: 9780393021943
• Physical Description: xix, 457 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : Norton, [1977]
• Copyright: ©1977

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: pages 403-426.

Discography: pages 427-430.

Formatted Contents Note:

The state of music in the U.S. in the late nineteenth century : Art music ; Popular music ; Folk music ; Black art music ; Black popular music ; Black folk music -- 2. African music : Music in Africa ; African music in the Americas ; Black American music during the colonial period ; Black American music from 1800 to the Civil War -- 3. Jazz before the name "jazz" emerged : The East ; The Midwest ; The Southwest ; The South ; New Orleans ; The jazz combo ; Early jazzmen and their music -- 4. Ragtime : Piano rags ; Ragtime jazz ; The New York School ; 5. The blues : Country blues ; The classic blues ; Urban blues ; Instrumental blues -- 6. The early years of jazz, 1900 to 1917 : Ragtime jazz bands ; Jazz and morality ; Bunk, Papa, and Sidney ; The New Orleans sound ; The King, the Kid, and friends ; The ODJB ; The Jelly Roll ; Thoughts on the history of jazz -- 7. World War I and after -- the Twenties : The jazz explosion ; James P. Satchmo ; Fatha ; The jazz community ; Bix ; Changing times -- 8. The big-band concept: prelude to swing : The emergence of substyles ; The arranger -- Don Redman ; The composer -- Duke Ellington ; Early swing bands ; Kansas City swing -- 9. The swing era : The King of Swing -- Benny Goodman ; Musical characteristics ; Art Tatum ; Gene Krupa ; Charlie Christian ; Coleman Hawkins ; The basic band ; Prez ; Lionel Hampton ; Territory bands ; Duke ; Glenn Miller ; World War II ; Post-war swing -- 10. The jazz revolution -- Bebop : Origins of a new style ; Musical characteristics ; The leaders -- Bird and Diz ; The music ; The pianists -- Tad, Bud, and Monk ; Big Bands ; More about Bird -- 11. The Fifties -- a proliferation of styles ; Overview ; Cool jazz ; Third stream ; West Coast jazz ; Hard bop ; Something old and something new ; Sonny Rollins ; Something borrowed ; Kind of blue -- Miles Davis ; Social cause and musical effect -- 12. Loose ends and peripheral events : Loose ends ; Vocalists ; Other instrumentalists ; Classical musicians ; Peripheral events ; The beat poets ; Jazz educators ; Jazz and the church ; Modern-day blues -- Free jazz and its price : Free jazz ; Ornette Coleman ; Musical reactions ; A central figure -- John Coltrane ; Miles Davis ; The new groups ; The third world ; Progress report -- Transcriptions : Armstrong, S.O.L. ; Blues ; Armstrong, Struttin' with some Barbecue ; Armstrong, West End Blues ; Hawkins, Body and Soul ; Young, Lester Leaps In ; Gillespie, I Can't Get Started ; Parker, Embraceable You ; Parker, Little Benny ; Parker, Parker's Mood ; Coltrane, Giant Steps.

Target Audience Note:

1450L Lexile

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Jazz > History and criticism.