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A new history of jazz
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- Creator
- Alyn Shipton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Continuum, 2001
- Physical Details
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- x, 965 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780826447548, 0826447546
- OCLC
- ocm45338600
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 931-940) and indexes.
- Introduction: Rethinking Jazz History -- Pt. I. Origins. 1. Precursors. 2. Classic Jazz. 3. Piano Jazz: Stride and Boogie-Woogie. 4. The Rise of the Big Bands. 5. International Jazz to World War II -- Pt. II. From Swing to Bop. 6. Small Groups in Transition. 7. The Birth of Bebop. 8. Big-Band Bebop. 9. Dissemination. 10. Jazz Singing to 1950. 11. The New Orleans Revival and Mainstream Jazz -- Pt. III. Consolidation of Bebop. 12. Early Miles Davis. 13. Hard Bop and Soul-Jazz. 14. Cool Jazz and the West Coast Movement. 15. Big Bands in Transition -- Pt. IV. New Jazz. 16. Coltrane and Mingus. 17. Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman and the "New Thing" 18. Politicization: The AACM and Other Organizations. 19. Jazz as World Music. 20. Jazz Fusions. 21. Postmodern Jazz