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Jazz in American Culture
Jazz in American Culture
Author: Peter Townsend
The family of musical styles known as jazz came into being around 1900 as several popular black musical idioms coalesced. This free-flowing, spontaneous music based in improvisation emerged primarily from ragtime and the blues. But jazz did not remain solely in the domain of American music, for very quickly it swept through virtually all of the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781578063246
ISBN-10: 1578063248
Publication Date: 8/1/2000
Pages: 193
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Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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