Keeping time
Subtitle: readings in jazz history
By: edited by Robert Walser.
Contributors: Walser, Robert.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism
Description: Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth. In the end, the focus here remains on how the music works and why people have cared about it. Keeping Time will increase one's historical awareness of jazz even as it provokes lively discussion among jazz aficionados, whether in clubs, concert halls, or classrooms.

"Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth." "In the end, the focus here remains on how the music works and why people have cared about it. Keeping Time will increase one's historical awareness of jazz even as it provokes lively discussion among jazz aficionados, whether in clubs, concert halls, or classrooms."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-438) and index.