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Jazz

Jazz

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Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 02 hours and 21 minutes

Language: English

Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” emerged. This descriptive and analytical narrative explores the growth and the changes in direction of jazz music, and the effect on it of religious and economic as well as artistic and individual influences. - Summary by R. P. Jones, in Preface

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I. Pre-History (Ben Tucker)
II. New Orleans (Ben Tucker)
III. Early Jazz in New Orleans (Ben Tucker)
IV. The Spread of Jazz (Ben Tucker)
V. The Jazz Age: White (Ben Tucker)
VI. The Jazz Age: Negro (Ben Tucker)
VII. The Depression and Kansas City (Ben Tucker)
VIII. Swing (Ben Tucker)
IX. The Revival (Ben Tucker)
X. Bop (Ben Tucker)
XI. Cool, Commercial and Collected (Ben Tucker)
XII. Conclusion (Ben Tucker)
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