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The History of Jazz

By Stuart A. Kallen

Book information

Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Year
2012
ISBN
9781420509755, 9781420508208
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6661898 bytes)
Series
The Music Library
Edition
1
Pages
130\0
Time added
2023-08-21 02:29:23

Description

Readers will learn that music based on jazz beats can be heard all over the world but the roots of the style are distinctly American. Jazz grew out of the musical hothouse that was New Orleans, Louisiana at the end of the nineteenth century. Jazz represents the creative musical side of the United States to people across the globe. Jazz personalities such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, and now Esperanza Spaulding, are heroes to countless jazz fans from Tokyo to Paris to Rio de Janeiro. Just as a swinging jazz quartet unites its individual players behind a driving syncopated beat, jazz music has proven its ability to bring people together over a shared interest in a universal sound.

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