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Jazz A Regional Exploration
Scott Yanow
Book Code: GR2871
ISBN: 0-313-32871-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32871-8
320 pages, 50 photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 2/28/2005
List Price: $78.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Discount Price: $55.27 Greenwood Press Fall 2008 Backlist Sale. Use code 0826. Save 30%. Ends 12/31/2008.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [A]n impressive body of knowledge.
    —Library Journal     May 15, 2005
  • The book's concise layout and novel regional arrangement will make it useful....Lower-division undergraduates and general readers.
    —Choice     October 2005
Description: Many audiophiles describe jazz as the one true form of American music. Arising out of the syncopated rhythms of African music, Cajun songs, and Ragtime, jazz evolved in many "scenes" throughout the country. The "Young Lions" jazz movement in New Orleans spread up the Mississippi in the northern Migration. Missouri communities such as St. Louis and Sedalia became jazz centers, while Count Basie led a revolution in Kansas City. Chicago became a center of freewheeling jazz in the 1920s with the efforts of Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, and Louis Armstrong, while classic jazz and swing took root in New York City in the '30s and '40s behind Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Benny Goodman, the "King of Swing." And while "boogie woogie" and "hot jazz" grew out of the Big Apple, a generation of experimental musicians such as Chet Baker and Stan Kenton stood at the forefront of West Coast jazz and the Los Angeles scene. Noted jazz writer Scott Yanow carefully traces the evolution of jazz from regional manifestations to an increasingly national language at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Greenwood Guide to American Roots Music series includes volumes on musical genres that have pervaded American culture. This series describes American musical traditions that have been associated with specific geographic regions throughout our nation. Each volume explores the different ways that a genre, such as jazz, has evolved naturally in different regions and "scenes" while becoming an undeniable element of American culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapters 1-10
  • Timeline
  • Biography Section
  • Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2004018258
LCC Class: ML3508
Dewey Class: 781
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