A new history of jazz
By: Alyn Shipton
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 965
ISBN-13: 9780826447548; 9780826463388
Subjects: Jazz; Histoire et critique; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 931-940) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Precursors -- -- 2.; title: Classic jazz -- -- 3.; title: Piano jazz : stride and boogie-woogie -- -- 4.; title: The rise of the big bands -- -- 5.; title: International jazz to World War II -- -- 6.; title: Small groups in transition -- -- 7.; title: The birth of bebop -- -- 8.; title: Big-band bebop -- -- 9.; title: Dissemination -- -- 10.; title: Jazz singing to 1950 -- -- 11.; title: The New Orleans revival and mainstream jazz -- -- 12.; title: Early Miles Davis -- -- 13.; title: Hard bop and soul-jazz -- -- 14.; title: Cool jazz and the West Coast movement -- -- 15.; title: Big bands in transition -- -- 16.; title: Coltrane and Mingus -- -- 17.; title: Free jazz : Ornette Coleman and the "New thing" -- -- 18.; title: Politicization : the AACM and other organizations -- -- 19.; title: Jazz as world music -- -- 20.; title: Jazz fusions -- -- 21.; title: Postmodern jazz.