Creation of jazz.
Series: Music in American life; Blacks in the New World
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism.; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Table of contents: title: "I couldn't see anything but music" : African and rural roots; title: "He should throw that club at you" : urban origins in New Orleans; title: "Therefore, I got to go" : jazz and the great northern migration; title: "Changing, changing" : the forging of northern blackcommunities; title: "The great travelers" : white jazz musicians of the 1920s; title: "Turn the bitters into sweets" : the musical culture of jazz; title: "Being crazy don't make music" : searching for a jazz subculture; title: "Money-finding music" : jazz as a commodity; title: "Wacky state of affairs" : the Depression, Swing Era, and Revolt; title: "The wedding of the races"? : jazz and the color line.