The Jazz Revolution: Twenties America & the Meaning of Jazz

by Kathy J. Ogren

Book Overview

Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country's popular music. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) and the "Lost Generation" (Malcolm Cowley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein), along with many other Americans celebrated it--both as an expression of black culture and as a symbol of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195074793
• ISBN13: 9780195074796
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"