ENGLISH

The Jazz Book: From Ragtime to the 21st Century

Book information

Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9781556528231, 9781556528200, 1931962022, 155652823X, 9781613746028, 1613746024
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8546791 bytes)
Edition
Seventh edition, rev. and expanded
Pages
xiv, 754 pages: illustrations\770
Time added
2020-11-29 04:13:49

Description

For fifty yearsThe Jazz Bookhas been the most encyclopedic interpretive history of jazz available in one volume. In this new seventh edition, each chapter has been completely revised and expanded to incorporate the dominant styles and musicians since the book’s last publication in 1992, as well as the fruits of current research about earlier periods in the history of jazz. In addition, new chapters have been added on John Zorn, jazz in the 1990s and beyond, samplers, the tuba, the harmonica, non-Western instruments, postmodernist and repertory big bands, how the avant-garde has explored tradition, and many other subjects. With a widespread resurgence of interest in jazz,The Jazz Bookwill continue well into the 21st century to fill the need for information about an art form widely regarded as America’s greatest contribution to the world’s musical culture.

Similar books