Why jazz happened / Marc Myers.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.Description: x, 267 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780520268784 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520268784 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 781.65/5 23
- ML3508 .M94 2013
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Vermont Jazz Center | Book Collection | Archive Room | ML3508.M94 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Eugene Uman Collection | 39088000001211 |
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| ML3508 .J4 1985 Jazzmen / | ML3508 .L93 1980 The 101 best jazz albums : a history of jazz on records / | ML3508 .L95 1979 vol. 2 Enter the giants, 1931-1944 / | ML3508.M94 2013 Why jazz happened / | ML3508 .P45 The creation of jazz : music, race, and culture in urban America / | ML3508.P46 1997 Jazz in American culture / | ML3508 .R68 Hard bop : jazz and Black music 1955-1965 / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Record Giants Blink -- DJs, Promoters, and Bebop -- G.I. Bill and Cool -- Speed War, Tape, and Solos -- Suburbia and West Coast Jazz -- BMI, R&B, and Hard Bop -- Bias, Africa, and Spiritual Jazz -- Invasion and Jazz-Pop -- Alienation and the Avant-Garde -- Lights, Volume, and Fusion -- Jazz Hangs On -- Notes -- Index.
A comprehensive social history looks at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles.
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