On The Bookshelf…
The Story Of Jazz | Marshall W. Stearns
Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in America, Marshall Stearns’s history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans, Louisiana and its adoption through the Great Migration by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York.
The effect of jazz upon American culture and the American character has been all pervasive. This superlative history is the first and the most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this Black American musical phenomenon. The book follows its course through the era of swing and bop to the beginnings of rock in the 50s, vividly depicting the great innovators, and covering such technical elements as the music’s form and structure.
The Story Of Jazz: 1956 | Marshall W. Stearns Oxford University Press
