This fascinating volume provides a concise, literate, accurate, and up-to-date look at the history of jazz and its major figures. The authors put biases and personal ...

A respected critic presents an intellectual history of jazz that explains the origins of the genre within a context of America culture, covering everything from the styles that ...

JAZZ: THE FIRST 100 YEARS, 2nd Edition explores the development of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots in blues and ragtime, through swing and bebop, to fusion and ...

This classic chronological survey of jazz history brings the various historical styles to life by exploring them through the lives of the musicians and a study of their ...

A groundbreaking work expanding our view of music beyond the Western classical tradition.

A cultural history of the trumpet traces its rise from a court instrument in ancient Egypt and regimental staple in military marching bands to a pivotal component in the ...

Looks at how jazz has fulfilled a spiritual role for some of its listeners, discusses the concerns of its early opponents, and traces specific movements