Jazz Dance by Marshall W Stearns

Jazz Dance by Marshall W Stearns

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Jazz Dance by Marshall W Stearns

Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, 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 and its adoption by St Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, and New York. From swing and bop to the early days of rock, this lively book introduces us to the great musicians and singers and examines jazz's cultural effects on American and the world.
The late Marshall Stearns was author of The Story of Jazz, and was the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival and Institute of Jazz Studies. He was also a professor of English at Hunger College in New York and a medieval literature scholar. He died in 1966 while completing his book Jazz Dance co-authored by his wife Jean. Jean Stearns is an authority on jazz and assisted her late husband Marshall in researching and writing Jazz Dance.
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ISBN 13 9780028725109
ISBN 10 0028725107
Title Jazz Dance
Author Marshall W Stearns
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Schirmer G Books
Year published 1980-03-06
Number of pages 464
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