Jazz in American Culture / / Peter Townsend.
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9781853312045);Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world.The book looks at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context, and aims to open up the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | BAAS Paperbacks : BAAS
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. The Language: Jazz as Music
- CHAPTER 2. 'A Marvel of Social Organization': Jazz as a Culture
- CHAPTER 3. Rhythm is our Business: The Swing Era 1935-45
- CHAPTER 4. Telling the Story: The Representation of Jazz
- CHAPTER 5. 'An Analogous Dynamic in the Design': Jazz as Aesthetic Model
- CHAPTER 6. 'A Tamed Richness': Jazz as Myth
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- The British Association for American Studies (BAAS)