Jazz in American Culture
eBook - ePub

Jazz in American Culture

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eBook - ePub

Jazz in American Culture

About this book

The first compact history of jazz to place it within broader context. With an eye on the music, the musicians, and the audience, Mr. Peretti traces the emergence of jazz and follows its progress to the present, showing how it has reflected shifting American values. Heartily recommended...accessible to a broad readership. -Library Journal. American Ways Series.

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Information

Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Year
1998
eBook ISBN
9781461713043

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. 1 From Ragtime to Jazz in the 1910s
  3. 2 Hot and Sweet, White and Black: The Jazz Age
  4. 3 The Great Depression, the “Common Man,” and the Swing Era
  5. 4 Jazz Goes to War
  6. 5 Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, Affluence, and Anxiety
  7. 6 “We Insist”: Jazz Inside and Outside the 1960s
  8. 7 Fusion and Fragmentation: Jazz at the End of the American Century
  9. Epilogue
  10. Suggested Reading