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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.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1221037~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  781.6509 WAR    AVAILABLE
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Description x, 489 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-470) and index.
Contents ch. 1. Gumbo : beginnings to 1907 -- ch. 2. The gift : 1907-1917 -- ch. 3. The jazz age : 1917-1924 -- Freedom of expression with a groove : an interview with Wynton Marsalis -- ch. 4. Our language : 1925-1929 -- ch. 5. Hard, hard times : 1929-1935 -- Reminiscing in tempo / by Dan Morgenstern -- ch. 6. The velocity of celebration : 1936-1939 -- ch. 7. Dedicated to chaos : 1940-1945 -- White noise and white knights : some thoughts on race, jazz, and the white jazz musician / by Gerald Early -- ch. 8. Risk : 1945-1950 -- Extreme jazz : the avant-garde / by Gary Giddins -- ch. 9. The adventure : 1950-1960 -- The presence is always the point / by Stanley Crouch -- ch. 10. A masterpiece by midnight : 1960 to the present.
Subject Jazz -- History and criticism.
Jazz -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Burns, Ken, 1953-
ISBN 067944551X
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