Essential Jazz The First 100 Years

Name: Essential Jazz The First 100 Years
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ISBN: 9780495505259

ISBN-10: 0495505250

ISBN-13: 9780495505259

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: Henry Martin, Keith Waters

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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 designed to appeal to learners with little or no music background. Accessible, informative Listening Guides provide a rich sociocultural context for each…

Book details

List price: $192.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 1/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



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


Index