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The Historical Dictionary of Jazz covers the history of Jazz through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,500 cross-referenced entries on significant jazz performers, band leaders, bands, venues, record labels, recordings, and the different styles of jazz. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone seeking a broader understanding of the history of jazz and the connections within the genre.
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The historical dictionaries present essential information on a broad range of subjects, including American and world history, art, business, cities, countries, cultures, customs, film, global conflicts, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, religion, sports, and theater. Written by experts, all contain highly informative introductory essays of the topic and detailed chronologies that, in some cases, cover vast historical time periods but still manage to heavily feature more recent events.
Brief AZ entries describe the main people, events, politics, social issues, institutions, and policies that make the topic unique, and entries are cross-referenced for ease of browsing. Extensive bibliographies are divided into several general subject areas, providing excellent access points for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more. Additionally, maps, photographs, and appendixes of supplemental information aid high school and college students doing term papers or introductory research projects. In short, the historical dictionaries are the perfect starting point for anyone looking to research in these fields.
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Historical Dictionary of Jazz
John S. Davis
The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Lanham Toronto Plymouth, UK
2012
Published by Scarecrow Press, Inc.
A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706
www.rowman.com
10 Thornbury Road, Plymouth PL6 7PP, United Kingdom
Copyright 2012 by John S. Davis
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Davis, John S., 1960
Historical dictionary of jazz / John S. Davis.
p. cm. (Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8108-6757-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8108-7898-3
(ebook)
1. JazzDictionaries. I. Title.
ML102.J3D38 2012
781.6503dc23
2012016422
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
Editors Foreword
We all know where jazz comes from, namely African-American musicians who, in the early 20th century, began mixing or fusing various genres such as Blues and Ragtime, with its first major site being New Orleans. But, at that time, no one could have known where jazz would goand we still dont know today. It moved from New Orleans, where it is admittedly still big, to Chicago and New York in the north, and also to the West Coast, and on to Europe as well as Latin America, to say nothing of Japan. During this trajectory, it mixed with other trends, like Swing and Bebop, and assumed many forms, such as Traditional Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Straight-Ahead, and Modal Jazz, among others. It proved attractive to an amazingly varied group of musicians, including and just to name a few, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and of course Louis Armstrong, but also George Gersh-win. It was often popular in the broader sense, but took on tinges of Classical music as well, and it enthused one generation after another of listeners, men, women, and children, of every age, class, and color, around the world. So, in some sense this is a moving target, and one that is hard to define simply and accurately. But that does not matter; jazz doesnt really care.
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