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Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz Paperback - 2000

by John Szwed

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Noted anthropologist, critic, and musical scholar John F. Szwed takes readers on a tour of the tangled history of jazz and explores how it developed from ethnic music to become America's most popular style and then part of the avant garde in less than 50 years.

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A vital tool in understanding and appreciating jazz -- introducing the key figures, theory, and the controversies that shaped it development -- that explores how it became North America's most popular music in less than fifty years.
Often called America's only original art form, jazz is also one of our least understood. This fascinating entry into the world of jazz for the beginner, novice, casual enthusiast, or anyone who thinks jazz stopped developing in the 1950s, a misconception widely held today, debunks fallacies and analyzes the myths, history, and developments of this enthralling art form.
John F. Szwed, anthropologist, critic, and musical scholar, takes readers on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history of jazz, exploring how it developed from an ethnic music to popular music to part of the avant garde in less than fifty years. But he also offers insightful commentary on how jazz changed the way the world would look at music.
This complete overview includes:

  • The major types of jazz and the significant jazz musicians of the 20th century
  • The roots of jazz, including its European and African influences
  • Extensive sidebars with recommended listening, plus exhaustive appendices on jazz singers, record guides, and more

Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers in fluid, entertaining prose.

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Jazz has often been called America's only original art form, its classical music, the twentieth-century music par excellence.

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  • Title Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz
  • Author John Szwed
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hyperion - Acquired Assets, NY
  • Publication date 2000-08-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780786884964 / 0786884967
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 2.79 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Theometrics: Secular
  • Category Music/Songbooks
  • Library of Congress subjects Jazz - Analysis, appreciation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00035055
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.65

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  • Library Journal, 11/15/2000, Page 26

About the author

John F. Szwed is currently a professor of anthropology, African and African-American studies, music, and American studies at Yale University. He has written seven books on music and African-American culture and numerous articles and reviews on related subjects. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship. He lives in Connecticut.
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