A Child's Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World's Coolest Music 9780762479429, 2022012554, 2022012555, 9780762479412

Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians 9780520928985

Floyd Levin, an award-winning jazz writer, has personally known many of the jazz greats who contributed to the music

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Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present 0786420979, 9780786420971

From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolved from its roots—bl

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Music and the New Global Culture: From the Great Exhibitions to the Jazz Age 9780226649306

Music listeners today can effortlessly flip from K-pop to Ravi Shankar to Amadou & Mariam with a few quick clicks of

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Music Theory Essentials: A Step-by-Step Introduction to Music Theory for All Musicians

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Lift Every Voice and Swing: Black Musicians and Religious Culture in the Jazz Century 9781479801831

Explores the role of jazz celebrities like Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, and Mary Lou Williams as repre

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Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries 9780520951358

What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of thi

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Jazz Dance : A History of the Roots and Branches [1 ed.] 9780813048741, 9780813049298

The history of jazz dance is best understood by comparing it to a tree. The art form's roots are African. Its trunk

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Against the Musicians (Greek and Latin Music Theory) 0803241682, 9780803241688

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Badiou and Communicable Worlds: A Critical Introduction to Logics of Worlds 9781350177949, 9781350177970, 9781350177956

Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in contemporary thought. Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badi

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Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture 9780773552951

What the “triumph of the nerds” can tell us about the place of media in people’s lives. This book recentres our unders

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