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The Uncrowned King of Swing Jeffrey Magee (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University)

The Uncrowned King of Swing By Jeffrey Magee (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University)

The Uncrowned King of Swing by Jeffrey Magee (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University)

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Fletcher Henderson (1897 - 1952) is a major figure in the history of jazz. He led the premier black jazz band of the 1920s and the early 1930s, and wrote the swing arrangements that helped make Benny Goodman the 'King of Swing'. The Uncrowned King of Swing is the first interpretive study of his music and career, using the full range of sources documenting his work.

The Uncrowned King of Swing Summary

The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz by Jeffrey Magee (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University)

Fletcher Henderson (1897 - 1952) is a major figure in the history of jazz. He led the premier black jazz band of the 1920s and the early 1930s, and wrote the swing arrangements that helped make Benny Goodman the 'King of Swing'. The Uncrowned King of Swing is the first interpretive study of his music and career, using the full range of sources documenting his work.

The Uncrowned King of Swing Reviews

This book first came out in hardback in 2005, but the intervening years have done nothing to diminish its status as the volume to turn to for anyone with an interest in bandleader/pianist Fletcher Henderson... * Nic Jones, All About Jazz *

About Jeffrey Magee (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University)

Jeffrey Magee is a Professor and Chair of Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His writings on jazz, ragtime, and American popular song have appeared in American Music, Lenox Avenue, International Dictionary of Black Composers, Musical Quarterly, the Cambridge History of American Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

Table of Contents

Preface: Crossing the Tracks in Cuthbert Introduction: Out of the Jazz Tradition1: A New Negro from the Old South

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NLS9780195340655
9780195340655
0195340655
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz by Jeffrey Magee (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University)
Jeffrey Magee (Assistant Professor of Musicology, Assistant Professor of Musicology, Indiana University)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2008-04-17
336
Winner of Winner of 2005 Irving Lowens Book Award, Society for American Music.
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