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- catalog abstract ""Every live performance of a jazz work is new, exciting, and challenging, and the classic recorded performances can help us develop discriminating taste and increase our enjoyment through informed, repeated, attentive listening. This book is intended to serve as a guide to the music and as an interpretation of the historical interaction that has taken place among jazz musicians, the music, and society. It is a survey of the historical development of this music from its African precursors to its current living components. To profit from this book, the reader must become a serious listener and pay careful attention to the music." -- xvii (Preface).".
- catalog contributor b3917816.
- catalog created "c1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "c1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
- catalog description ""Every live performance of a jazz work is new, exciting, and challenging, and the classic recorded performances can help us develop discriminating taste and increase our enjoyment through informed, repeated, attentive listening. This book is intended to serve as a guide to the music and as an interpretation of the historical interaction that has taken place among jazz musicians, the music, and society. It is a survey of the historical development of this music from its African precursors to its current living components. To profit from this book, the reader must become a serious listener and pay careful attention to the music." -- xvii (Preface).".
- catalog description "Discography: p. 127-130 (2nd group).".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ragtime -- The blues -- Jazz in its infancy -- The jazz age: from World War I through the roaring twenties -- The swing era -- Modern jazz: the bebop revolution -- A proliferation of styles: from the '40s through the '50s -- Social and musical revolution: the 1960s -- Confusion and fusion: from the '70s to the '80s -- A plurality of styles: through the '80s and into the '90s -- Appendices. Listening guides - Transcriptions - Synoptic table - Annotated bibliography - Selected discography - Indices to the record collections - Glossary.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 470, 210 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393961877 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0393963683 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "c1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog subject "781.65/09 20".
- catalog subject "Jazz History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "ML3506 .T57 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Ragtime -- The blues -- Jazz in its infancy -- The jazz age: from World War I through the roaring twenties -- The swing era -- Modern jazz: the bebop revolution -- A proliferation of styles: from the '40s through the '50s -- Social and musical revolution: the 1960s -- Confusion and fusion: from the '70s to the '80s -- A plurality of styles: through the '80s and into the '90s -- Appendices. Listening guides - Transcriptions - Synoptic table - Annotated bibliography - Selected discography - Indices to the record collections - Glossary.".
- catalog title "Jazz : a history / Frank Tirro.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".