Experiencing jazz /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding jazz. The nature of jazz ; The elements of jazz ; Listening to jazz ; The roots of jazz
- Classic jazz, 1917-1945. Jazz takes root ; The jazz age : from Chicago to New York ; The swing era : jazz at its peak ; Swinging across the country : the bands, singers and pianists
- Modern jazz. The bebop revolution ; The fifties and early sixties cool, intellectual and abstract jazz
- Post-modern jazz. Tradition meets the avant-garde : moderns and early post-moderns coexist ; Miles and miles of Miles : Miles Davis and his sidemen redefine postmodern jazz ; The electric 1970s and 1980s ; The unplugged, eclectic 1970s and 1980s ; Jazz for a new century.