The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920's

by Arnold Shaw

Book Overview

F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195060822
• ISBN13: 9780195060829
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"