Early Jazz
eBook - ePub

Early Jazz

A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Early Jazz

A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929

About this book

A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.

Early Jazz is an overview of the beginnings of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots through 1929, when elements of the Swing Era began to emerge. It is the first book on early jazz history in over fifty years and fills a compelling need for an update that reflects recent research. With a broad definition of jazz that encompasses the artistic and the commercial, the book's inclusive tone allows for a wide spectrum of musicians, including not only pioneering African American and white musicians but also those who are commonly skipped or skimmed over in jazz history textbooks-lesser-known sidemen, prominent instrumentalists, entertainers or novelty performers, women, vocalists, and American jazz musicians who introduced jazz on their travels around the world. Twenty songs are analyzed in depth, but no musical knowledge is required to understand or to read Early Jazz. The book is written as an introduction for fans, students, musicians, historians, scholars, and anyone who is interested in this fascinating era of jazz history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Ragtime and Traveling Shows
  8. 2. The Blues
  9. 3. New Orleans and Early White Bands
  10. 4. King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton
  11. 5. The New York Scene: The Small Groups
  12. 6. Stride Piano
  13. 7. The New York Dance Band Sound: From James Reese Europe to Duke Ellington
  14. 8. Louis Armstrong
  15. 9. The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke
  16. 10. Other Pioneering Soloists
  17. 11. Territory and Other Bands
  18. 12. Vocal Jazz
  19. 13. Jazz around the World
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover