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Author Ward, Geoffrey C.

Title Jazz : a history of America's music / by Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward ; with a preface by Ken Burns.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Alfred A. Knopf, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  781.6509 W212j    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  781.65 War    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 489 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-470) and index.
Contents Gumbo : beginnings to 1907 -- Gift : 1907-1917 -- Jazz age : 1917-1924 -- Freedom of expression with a groove : an interview with Wynton Marsalis -- Our language : 1925-1929 -- Hard, hard times : 1929-1935 -- Reminiscing in tempo / Dan Morgenstern -- Velocity of celebration : 1936-1939 -- Dedicated to chaos : 1940-1945 -- White noise and white knights : some thoughts on race, jazz, and the white jazz musician / Gerald Early -- Risk : 1945-1950 -- Extreme jazz : the avant-garde / Gary Giddins -- Adventure : 1950-1960 -- Presence is always the point / Stanley Crouch -- Masterpiece by midnight : 1960 to the present.
Subject Jazz music -- History and criticism.
Jazz music -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Burns, Ken, 1953-
ISBN 067944551X

 
    
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