Essential Jazz : The First 100 Years
ISBN: 9780495505259 | 0495505250
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Schirmer
Pub. Date: 1/25/2008
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A complete jazz chronology, ESSENTIAL JAZZ: THE FIRST 100 YEARS, 2e, delivers a thorough and engaging introduction to jazz and American culture. Designed for nonmajors, this brief text explores the development of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots in ragtime and blues through swing and bebop to fusion and contemporary jazz styles. Unique in its up-to-date coverage, one-third of ESSENTIAL JAZZ is devoted to performers of the 1960s through present-day performers. The text's flexible organization and clear, interesting presentation are designe... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Roots | |
| Early Jazz | |
| The Swing Era | |
| The Bebop Era | |
| The Fifties and New Jazz Substyles | |
| The Sixties | |
| Jazz-Rock, Jazz-Funk Fusion | |
| Jazz Since the 1980s | |
| Notes | |
| Glossary | |
| Selected Readings | |
| Selected Discography |
