Jazz in American Culture

by Peter Townsend

Book Overview

The family of musical styles known as jazz came into being around 1900 as several popular black musical idioms coalesced. This free-flowing, spontaneous music based in improvisation emerged primarily from ragtime and the blues. But jazz did not remain solely in the domain of American music, for very quickly it swept through virtually all of the national culture as fiction, poetry, film, photography, painting, and classical music came under its spell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578063248
• ISBN13: 9781578063246
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi/Edinburgh Uni
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"