The jazz age : popular music in the 1920's / Arnold Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Arnold.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--United States--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Jazz--1921-1930--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Musicals--United States.

Musicals.

United States--History--1919-1933.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper and the Gangster. The Jazz Age offers an insider's view into the significant developments and personalities of the jazz age, including the maturation and Americanization of the Broadway musical theater, the explosion of the arts celebrated in the Harlem Renaissance, the rise of the Classic Blues Singers, and the evolution of ragtime into stride piano. It also contains a bibliography, detailed discography, and listings of the songs of the twenties in Variety's "Golden 100" and of films featuring singers and songwriters of the era..

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I: THE JAZZ AGE

1 "Flappers Are We

2 King Oliver, Jelly Roll, and Satchmo

3 Bix, Austin High, and Chicago Style

4 Pops and Smack

II: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

5 Duke, Ethel, and the Harlem Scene

6 "The Birth of the Blues

7 "Kitten on the Keys

8 Shuffle Along

III: TIN PAN ALLEY

9 "Dardanella

10 "The Sheik of Araby

11 "Three O'Clock in the Morning

12 "Yes! We Have No Bananas"/"Charleston

13 "Rhapsody and Romance in Blue

14 "Tea for Two

15 "The Black Bottom

16 "Talkies" and Theme Songs

17 "The Singing Fool

18 California Gold Rush

IV: THE MUSICAL THEATRE

19 The Musical Revue

20 The Golden Coterie

21 The Operetta Revival

22 Song Laureate of the Roaring Twenties

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Discography

Variety's "Golden 100 Tin Pan Alley Songs

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography: p. 303-309 and indexes.

"Discography"--p. 311-318.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-52427-8

9786610524273

0-19-536298-5

1-4237-3654-0

1-60129-746-7

OCLC:

84145969