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• Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
• File Size : 36,9 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 1999

The Kansas City Jazz Museum traces the evolution of jazz music in America, from the early 1920s to the present day, focusing on the contributions of such Kansas City-based musicians

• Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 22,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2018

The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2020

Jazz is a music born in the United States and formed by a combination of influences. In its infancy, jazz was a melting pot of military brass bands, work songs

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 23,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2005

There were but four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in print. But there has never been

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 1987

"A big juicy wedge of jazz history. . . . Lots of wonderful stories." -- Los Angeles Daily News "Kansas City was a hub for Jazz bands that crisscrossed the country in the 1930

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 21,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 December 2010

African Americans' historical roots are encapsulated in the lyrics, melodies, and rhythms of their music. In the 18th and 19th centuries, African slaves, longing for emancipation, expressed their hopes and

• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 May 2007

A "behind the music" story without parallel John Hammond is one of the most charismatic figures in American music, a man who put on record much of the music we

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 25,5 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 1971

From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker are just

• Publisher : Scarecrow Press
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2013

The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 1 and 2 covers the full range of popular music recordings with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. In this 2-volume encyclopedia, Sullivan explores approximately 1,000

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 20 May 2024

Ranging from ragtime to bebop and from Bennie Moten to Charlie Parker, this work aims to capture the golden age of Kansas City jazz. It showcases the lives of the