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A new history of jazz / Alyn Shipton.
LIBRA ML3506 .S47 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shipton, Alyn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Physical Description:
- x, 965 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.
- Summary:
- A new interpretation of the legacy of jazz from leading jazz scholar Shipton. Using new source material, he investigates how jazz started and makes the case for jazz as an international music. 100 photos.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking Jazz History 1
- Part I Origins
- 1. Precursors 15
- The Music of the Plantations 15
- Ragtime and Syncopated Music 30
- Blues and Vaudeville 40
- Brass Bands 62
- 2. Classic Jazz 72
- New Orleans 72
- The Original Dixieland Jazz Band 96
- Jazz on the Move 106
- Chicago and King Oliver 114
- Chicago and Jelly Roll Morton 122
- Chicago and Louis Armstrong 132
- Red Nichols, Bix Beiderbecke, and the Austin High School Gang 143
- The Chicago Small Groups 162
- 3. Piano Jazz: Stride and Boogie-Woogie 169
- 4. The Rise of the Big Bands 201
- Paul Whiteman: The King of Jazz 201
- Territory Bands 216
- Fletcher Henderson 232
- A Change in the Rhythm Section 248
- Early Ellington 259
- Out of the Territories 282
- The Swing Era 316
- 5. International Jazz to World War II 358
- Origins of International Jazz 358
- Britain 360
- Germany 372
- France 381
- Elsewhere in Europe 392
- Further Afield 398
- Part II From Swing to Bop
- 6. Small Groups in Transition 403
- Swing Street 403
- Swing in, Swing out: Changes to the Small Swing Ensemble 426
- 7. The Birth of Bebop 437
- A Psychological Shift 437
- A Remarkable Partnership 447
- From the Three Deuces to Billy Berg's 469
- Bebop Piano 484
- Closing the Door on Bebop 501
- 8. Big-Band Bebop 512
- Dizzy Gillespie's Orchestra and the West Coast Bands 512
- From Krupa to Kenton 528
- 9. Dissemination 545
- The A.F.M. Recording Ban of 1942 545
- The Player Piano 548
- Sound Recording 550
- Radio Broadcasting 557
- Jazz on Film 564
- 10. Jazz Singing to 1950 572
- 11. The New Orleans Revival and Mainstream Jazz 607
- Not So Much a Revival, More a Way of Life 607
- Burgundy Street Blues 619
- Jazz At The Philharmonic and "Mainstream" Jazz 632
- Part III Consolidation of Bebop
- 12. Early Miles Davis 643
- 13. Hard Bop and Soul-Jazz 667
- 14. Cool Jazz and the West Coast Movement 690
- 15. Big Bands in Transition 717
- Part IV New Jazz
- 16. Coltrane and Mingus 739
- John Coltrane 739
- Charles Mingus 762
- 17. Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman and the "New Thing" 773
- Ornette Coleman 773
- Free Jazz: The Followers of Coltrane and Coleman 790
- 18. Politicization: The AACM and Other Organizations 803
- 19. Jazz as World Music 830
- India 834
- Africa 837
- Europe and Russia 844
- 20. Jazz Fusions 850
- Origins of Jazz-Rock 850
- Miles Davis and Jazz-Rock 856
- Fusion in the Wake of Miles Davis 863
- From Jazz-Rock to "Smooth Jazz" 870
- 21. Postmodern Jazz 873
- In the Tradition: Looking Back 879
- In the Tradition: Looking Forward 883.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 931-940) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0826447546
- OCLC:
- 45338600
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