Jazz in American Culture /

Jazz in American Culture / / Peter Townsend.

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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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Townsend, Peter,
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)

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