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Jazz: An American Journey places jazz music within its rich historical and cultural context. The book explains how and why jazz evolved as it did, as it emphasizes chronology, historical cause and effect, and the interactions between music and American history and culture. Presented from the point of view of the original participants (musicians, critics, and audiences), the book focuses on the music with fifty-five recorded examples that are accompanied by a listening chart, commentary, and analysis, all to provide a more vivid setting for jazz grounded in the time, place, and worldview of its creators. Features bull; bull;Historical, political, cultural, and economic context for each stylistic period presented helps students understand how jazz relates to larger currents in American history, politics, and culture. bull;Contemporary Voices and Great Debates-Contemporary Voices boxes contain quotations from people who lived during the period being discussed. Great Debates boxes summarize important controversies among jazz critics and scholars. bull;Maps highlight important cities, regions, communities, and venues in jazz history to orient students to the geographical landscape of jazz. bull;Matters of race, gender, and economic forces addressed directly-for example, how black ideologies shaped musical development; contributions made by white musicians; and the widely ignored role of women in jazz. Listening Program bull; bull;Three-CD collection containing all the music discussed in Jazz: An American Journey bull;The Prentice Hall Jazz Collection Compact Disc containing twelve additional historic jazz recordings. This item is FREE when packaged with the text.

Preface
Introduction
Origins (ca. 1900-1914)
Black Americans at the Turn of the Century
Sources of Jazz
New Orleans
Early Jazz (ca. 1914-1929)
Historical Context: The Jazz Age
New Orleans Jazz
Louis Armstrong
White Jazz
New York Bands
Early Jazz Piano
Swing (ca. 1929-1945)
Historical Context: The Swing Era
Black Bands
Duke Ellington
White Bands
Virtuoso Soloists
Female Singers
Bop (ca. 1945-1960)
Historical Context: Postwar America
Bebop
Charlie Parker
Cool Jazz
Hard Bop
Miles Davis
Free Jazz to Fusion (ca. 1960-1975)
Historical Context: The Sixties
Free Jazz
John Coltrane
Modern Big Bands and Male Singers
Bossa Nova and Soul Jazz
Fusion
Postmodern Jazz (ca. 1975-2000)
The Neo-Bop Movement
Free Jazz and Fusion in the 19809s
Jazz at the Millenium
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This textbook grew out of an assignment I received several years ago to teach a jazz history course for nonmusic majors. General Education guidelines encouraged teachers to place their subjects within broad humanistic settings, to help students make connections with historical events they may have studied elsewhere, and to reveal cultures relevant to the topic being addressed. When asked if jazz history could be taught in this way, I responded affirmatively. Studying jazz in context uncovers relationships with economics, politics, and other social dimensions, particularly at the site of watershed historical events--the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern cities, World War I and World War II, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, among others. Students' understanding of jazz should illuminate many aspects of twentieth-century culture they encounter in other courses.Moreover, the emphasis on context makes it possible to see how social conditions gave birth to musical style. It helps to know, for instance, that the defining paradigms of Booker T. Washington and W E. B. Du Bois established basic attitudes toward race throughout the century. These attitudes decisively affected the evolution of jazz style, particularly its transformation from entertainment to art. Such connections can be made all along the line: vaudeville inspired the antic quality of much early jazz, the ability to hire more musicians for less money supported the rise of big bands during the Depression, the drive by American blacks for political freedom in the early sixties found its counterpart in free jazz, and so forth.The conviction that jazz can and should be presented within a vivid historical setting reflects the direction of much jazz scholarship of recent years. But as I began examining materials to use in the class, I realized that few textbooks attempted to provide such a setting. Most were concerned to present a more or less abstract evolution of musical style, occasionally addressing historical issues, but more often discussing the players and composers from critical perspectives outside the time periods being treated. Seeing the need for a survey that would tell the story of jazz holistically, situating the music within its natural home in American history and culture, I embarked upon this book. I hope the results of my efforts prove helpful to others who teach jazz in the university as well.I have organized the book into fifteen-year segments that correspond roughly to fundamental changes in both American society and jazz. This chronology is divided into six parts: Origins, Early Jazz, Swing, Bop, Free jazz to Fusion, and Postmodern Jazz (see Contents). Each part begins with a chapter on historical context to introduce the period. Additionally, most chapters open with a brief section on historical and cultural setting. The first part, Origins (c. 1900-1914), discusses the social conditions among African Americans that led to the rise of jazz, the influence of ragtime and the blues, and the formative role of New Orleans. The second part, Early Jazz (c. 1914-1929), treats the development of early jazz in Chicago and New York, the emergence of Louis Armstrong, and so forth.Each chapter has pedagogical aids to further illuminate the subject. These includeContemporary Voicesboxes containing quotations from people who lived during the period in question, boxes titledGreat Debatessummarizing important controversies among jazz critics and scholars, andChronologyboxes listing influential events--both musical and otherwise--for individual parts. Other boxes treatrecord labels, venues,andoffstage personalities.One unique feature of this book is a series ofhistorical mapsindicating regions, cities, communities, and venues that proved especially hospitable to jazz. Periodphotographs, album covers,andcartoonsgive a vis

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