Jazz: A Peoples Music

by Sidney Finkelstein, Geoffrey Jacques

Overview

This book is one of the most improtant works ever written on Jazz music. It is a virtual manifesto agains the ghettoization and the racist pigeonholing thast has afflicted the public's appreciation of this great music since its beginnings as ragtime a century ago. It exposes the lies and misconceptions that have surrounded this music, the attempts-made anew, it seems, each decade-to deny that jazz is one of the leading artistic forces of our time. It does this by convincing its readers of the special beauty of this great music of the Afro-American people

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780717807611
Publisher:	International Publishers Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/12/2019
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.49(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword by Geoffrey Jacques

1. The Place of Jazz in Music History

2. The Sound of Jazz

3. The Blues and the Folk Song of Jazz

4. Improvisation and the Jazz Form

5. The Pos Tune, the Hot Solo and the Large Band

6. The Experimental Laboratory and the New Jazz

7. The Future of Jazz

Record Listings

Index