
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...

Jazz in American Culture offers an informed and entertaining introduction to jazz - one of the great musical cultures of the world.The book looks at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context, and aims to open up the subject to the non-specialist...

A persuasive appreciation of what jazz is and of how it has permeated and enriched the culture of America