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Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Maurice Jackson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Georgetown University Press

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Poems -- Introduction -- 1 Jazz, "Great Black M
DC Jazz
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Maurice Jackson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-01 - Publisher: Georgetown University Press

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The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rai
Washington, DC, Jazz
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Dr. Regennia N. Williams
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-11 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Washington, DC, Jazz focuses, primarily, on the history of straight-ahead jazz, using oral histories, materials from the William P. Gottlieb Collection at the L
African Rhythms
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Randy Weston
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-05 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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African Rhythms is the autobiography of the important jazz pianist, composer and band leader Randy Weston. He tells of his childhood in Brooklyn, his six decade
Jazz and Justice
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Gerald Horne
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-18 - Publisher: Monthly Review Press

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A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth cent