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Highway 61 Revisited: The Tangled Roots of American Jazz, Blues, Rock, and Country Music

Book by Gene Santoro; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

Jazz--History And Criticism, Popular Music--United States--History And Criticism

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...Dylan-goes- electric-at-Newport as jazz purists are about post-Bitches Brew Miles Davis. Like jazz, folk music enjoyed a wider commercial appeal while...students and hipsters. The versions of jazz and folk that dominated the radio-the...
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture

Book by Robert G. O'Meally; Columbia University Press, 1998

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African Americans--Music--History And Criticism, Blues (Music)--History And Criticism, Jazz--History And Criticism

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...not confined to white critics. Jazz music and musicians bordered too closely...lyrics" that characterized much of jazz. "Music should sound, not screech; Music...scale work, and stay away from jazz music." Peyton complained consistently...
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The Rise of a Jazz Art World

Book by Paul Lopes; Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Jazz--History And Criticism, Music--Social Aspects

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...and Hybrid . For Sargeant, the issue was not jazz as popular music, but whether jazz was an art form equal to the European cultivated...distinct from the world of swing musicians and jazz music such neglect was not surprising. The music education...
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Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present

Book by Sascha Feinstein; Praeger Publishers, 1997

Subjects:

African American Musicians In Literature, American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Poetry--African American Authors--History And Criticism, English Language--Rhythm, Jazz In Literature, Jazz Musicians In Literature, Music And Literature--History--20th Century, Poetics, Poetry

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...be performed with the poem: "Grand finale of jazz music, like the fall of a pile of dishes in the kitchen...fails to present any innate appreciation for the music, but the newness of jazz music led to a great deal of misunderstanding about...
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The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

Book by Jon Panish; University Press of Mississippi, 1997

Subjects:

Jazz In Literature, Jazz--Social Aspects--United States, Music--Social Aspects--United States, Race In Literature, United States--Race Relations

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...jazz scene of the time. Because the jazz music scene itself was unbelievably vibrant...of bebop as well as the spread of jazz music clubs first from Harlem to midtown...dominant intellectual interest, it is jazz music. And the jazz world is the single...

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Journal Articles on: jazz music

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New Monastery: Monk and the Jazz Avant-Garde

Journal article by Robin D. G. Kelley; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 19, 1999

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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History, Jazz music--History, Monk, Thelonious--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...uniform. By some accounts, free jazz was to music what abstract expressionism was...West Coast musicians, the chamber music/jazz fusions of the Modern Jazz Quartet...class transformation in free jazz. Music Theory Spectrum 12, no. 2: 181...
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The Jazz Tinge in Dominican Music: A Black Atlantic Perspective

Journal article by Paul Austerlitz; Black Music Research Journal, 1998

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Dominican Republic--Music, Jazz music--Social aspects, Music and society--Analysis

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THE JAZZ TINGE IN DOMINICAN MUSIC: A BLACK ATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE...considers the history of the jazz tinge in Dominican music, tracing its reception and...Tejeda 1993, 114). Guerras music combines merengue with jazz and funk, and it also includes...
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Jazz in Los Angeles: The Black Experience

Journal article by Dwight Dickerson; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 31, 2011

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Black musicians--Emigration and immigration, Black musicians--Works, Jazz music--History, Jazz music--Personalities, Jazz musicians--Emigration and immigration, Jazz musicians--Works, Jazz--History, Jazz--Personalities, Los Angeles, California--Social aspects, Musicians, Black--Emigration and immigration, Musicians, Black--Works

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...playing (as best I could with SDA parents) the music--jazz, the music of the masters--and have done so, virtually...in 1959, wherein I furthered my commitment to jazz through music education--from undergraduate to a terminal...
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The Social Interpretation of Modern Jazz

Journal article by Alan Lewis; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 2, 1981

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African Americans, Jazz, Music history, Musicians & conductors, Musicology

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...European traditions. Black music - particularly jazz - clearly demonstrates the...1950s on intensified the art-music character of jazz. The New Thing was a broad...who introduced the era of jazz as a music for soloists; Coleman Hawkins...
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Appalachian Jazz: Some Preliminary Notes

Journal article by Todd Wright, John Higby; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 23, 2003

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African American music--Criticism and interpretation, African American music--Social aspects, African Americans--Criticism and interpretation, African Americans--Music, African Americans--Social aspects, Appalachian region--Social aspects, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Social aspects, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Social aspects

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...feeling may be manifest in their music. If jazz musicians in New York or Chicago...became deeply interested in jazz and improvisational music generally. After study at...however fluent, inclined to jazz standards and music in general that would be satisfying...

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Magazine Articles on: jazz music

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I Learned to Play Jazz Piano and You Can Too

Magazine article by Janeen Larsen; American Music Teacher, Vol. 56, December 2006

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Improvisation (Music)--Methods, Improvisational music--Methods, Jazz piano music--Study and teaching, Music teachers--Personal narratives, Piano music (Jazz)--Study and teaching

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...both European and African music. There are many styles of jazz, including New Orleans...underlying pulse of most jazz music evolved from dance music...The more you learn about jazz, the more your classical music playing will be enhanced...
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"The Loud Music of Life": Representations of Jazz in the Novels of Claude McKay

Magazine article by Paul De Barros; The Antioch Review, Vol. 57, Summer 1999

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African American authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American writers--Criticism and interpretation, African Americans--Portrayals, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation, McKay, Claude--Criticism and interpretation

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...open sesame to this Shangri-La? Music - a jazz pianist who has "wandered" into...Suarezs was fairly Bacchic and jazz music was snake-wriggling in and out...Beat magazine. His articles about jazz and new music have appeared in the Washington...
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Hockey Night in Canada, Klezmer Music, Shopping Is Good and All That Jazz

Magazine article by Cindy Filipenko; Herizons, Vol. 17, Summer 2003

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Canada, Jazz music, Musicians & conductors, Women

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...in Canada, Klezmer Music, Shopping Is Good and All That Jazz by Cindy Filipenko Graph...her career. But with jazz being increasingly influenced by world music, folk festivals across...essential outlets for jazz music. Until last year...
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Like Young: Jazz Has Been Attracting Its First Young Audiences in Decades - but Are They Hearing a Music without a Future?

Magazine article by Francis Davis; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, July 1996

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Carter, James--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Public opinion, Jazz musicians--Marketing, Jazz--Public opinion, Marsalis, Wynton--Influence, Music, Redman, Joshua--Criticism and interpretation, Youth

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...might also be running out for jazz as a commercially viable form of music. Jazz was already short of marquee...teenagers and college students that jazz offers absolutely nothing of...And isnt whatever the form of music that rings someones bells at...
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Two-Way Traffic: Just as Western Acts Are Inspired by "World Music", African Artists Are Tapping into Rock, Funk and Jazz, Writes Kevin LeGendre

Magazine article by Kevin Legendre; New Statesman, Vol. 136, May 21, 2007

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African artists--Criticism and interpretation, Artists, African--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation

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...boundaries between jazz and so-called "world" music. Like Loueke, the...improvisatory muse of American jazz. Much of the music in the festival programme...artists are incorporating jazz, rock and funk influences into their music on their own terms...

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Newspaper Articles on: jazz music

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Jazzing Up the Bay; Cardiff's Docklands Were Once the Heart of Jazz. Now Two Women Are Bringing the Music Back to the Area with a Festival This Weekend. Mike Smith Reports

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 29, 2011

Subjects:

Jazz, Jazz music, Music festivals

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Urdd, National Youth Jazz Wales will be playing music that they are learning...performing blue grass and soul music; Swinging Jazz with the Bay Divas; Li...weekend to enjoy the great music and atmosphere." ? Butetown Bay Jazz Heritage Festival takes...
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The Best Jazz Has to Offer; Music It Will Be a Case of and All That Jazz in Gateshead This Spring, as Entertainment Editor GORDON BARR Finds Out

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), January 16, 2008

Subjects:

Gil, Gilberto, Jazz, Jazz music, Music festivals, Musicians

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The Best Jazz Has to Offer; Music It Will Be a Case of and All...important addition to the British jazz festival scene, with a mix of music that reflects the styles deep...programme of contemporary music inspired by jazz and improvisation, including...
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Sandra Bernhard, Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N. Broadway St., Chicago: Music (Jazz)

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 12, 2010

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Broadway theater, Concerts, Folk music, Jazz, Jazz music

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...Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N. Broadway St., Chicago: Music (Jazz). Sandra Bernhard, Lakeshore Theater, 3175 N. Broadway St., Chicago: Music (jazz) and comedy. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12; 7...
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Dizzy and His Music; Duke Ellington Jazz Festival Honors Gillespie's Jazz Legacy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 10, 2007

Subjects:

Ellington, Duke, Jazz, Jazz music, Music festivals, Musicians

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Dizzy and His Music; Duke Ellington Jazz Festival Honors Gillespies...Factor will perform music that incorporates jazz with hip-hop. * Jazz...daylong all-star jazz extravaganza highlighting...Caribbean and African music. The concert also will...
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Style and Feeling District 45 Jazz Band Students Learn Music Is More Than Just Notes

Newspaper article by Michael Wamble; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 1, 2007

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Jazz music--Study and teaching, Jazz--Study and teaching, Music education--Study and teaching, Music in education--Study and teaching

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...Feeling District 45 Jazz Band Students Learn Music Is More Than Just Notes...thought he knew a bunch of jazz about music. But what he later...Koppel and fellow music instructor Christina...Elementary District 45 Jazz Band. The band is in...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jazz music

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Montreux Jazz Festival

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL international music festival held in Montreux, Switzerland, founded...for two weeks in July, it began as a purely jazz event and has evolved into a large festival featuring jazz, rock, pop, and other musical genres. It...
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Newport Jazz Festival

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL annual summer music festival, probably the best known...Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lorillard and jazz impresario George Wein, the festival...has been officially known as the JVC Jazz Festival since 1986; Wein directed...
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Jazz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...States has made to the art of music. Origins of Jazz Jazz developed in the latter...essentially a blend of classical music and jazz. Jazz has also been successfully...Nationalism and the Revolution in Music (1970); M. Williams, The Jazz Tradition (1970); D...
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Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...music see such articles as absolute music ; aleatory music ; chamber music ; church music ; computer music ; electronic music ; jazz ; program music ; rock music ; serial music ; and spiritual . In addition, see entries on the music of various nations...
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Popular Music

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

POPULAR MUSIC see country and western music ; folk song ; gospel music ; jazz ; rap music ; rock music . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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