Bibliograph

Experiencing jazz, Richard J. Lawn

Type

Label

Experiencing jazz, Richard J. Lawn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references, discography, and videography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Experiencing jazz

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographiesdiscographies

Responsibility statement

Richard J. Lawn

Table Of Contents

Understanding jazz. The nature of jazz ; The elements of music in jazz ; Listening to jazz ; The roots of jazz -- Classic jazz. 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 & 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 ; The electric 1970s and 1980s ; The unplugged, eclectic 1970s and 1980s ; Jazz for a new century

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