A new history of jazz
By: Alyn Shipton
Edition: Rev. and updated ed
Publisher: Continuum; Brand: Continuum; Continuum International Publishing Group
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9780826417893
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism
Description: Presents a history of jazz music in the United States and abroad, focusing on the personalities who were behind the creation of the music.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [774]-782) and index
Table of contents: title: Origins. Precursors ; Classic jazz ; Piano jazz : stride and boogie-woogie ; The rise of the big bands ; International jazz to World War II; title: From swing to bop. Small groups in transition ; The birth of bebop ; Big-band bebop ; Dissemination ; Jazz singing to 1950 ; The New Orleans revival and mainstream jazz; title: Consolidation of bebop. Early Miles Davis ; Hard bop and soul-jazz ; Cool jazz and the West Coast movement ; Big bands in transition; title: New jazz. Coltrane and Mingus ; Free jazz : Ornette Coleman and the "new thing" ; Politicization : the AACM and other organizations ; Jazz fusions ; Piano jazz since World War II ; Jazz singing since 1950 ; Jazz as world music ; Postmodern jazz