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Stearns, Marshall Winslow, author.

The story of jazz / Marshall W. Stearns.

New York : Oxford University Press, ©1956.

xii, 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. From swing and bop to the early days of rock, this lively book introduces us to the great musicians and singers and examines jazz's cultural effects on American and the world.

Jazz -- History and criticism.

Music -- History.

Jazz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-357).

Introduction -- Part one : the pre-history of jazz -- Jazz and West African music -- From Africa to the new world -- The West Indies and the United States -- Part two : New Orleans -- The New Orleans background -- The transition to jazz -- Jazz begins -- Buddy Bolden and the growth of jazz -- Part three : the American background -- The great awakening -- The work song -- The blues -- Minstrelsy -- The spiritual -- Ragtime -- Part four : the jazz age -- The jazz age begins -- The jazz age flourishes -- The jazz age ends -- Part five : jazz yesterday and today -- The swing era -- Bop -- Afro-Cuban music -- Part six : the nature of jazz -- The European tradition : harmony -- Melody and rhythm -- Expressiveness in jazz : a definition -- Part seven : Jazz tomorrow -- The conquest of jazz -- The appeal of jazz -- Jazz and the role of the Negro -- Postscript : the future of jazz.

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