The Jazz Age : Popular Music in the 1920s

Name: The Jazz Age
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780195038910
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ISBN: 9780195038910

by Arnold Shaw

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0195038916

ISBN-13 9780195038910

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 14th, 1988

Print length 368 Pages

Weight 550 grams

Dimensions 19.40 x 22.50 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Music

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This account of the `Roaring 20s' in America embraces all the major personalities in jazz and popular music -- singers, composers, instrumentalists -- with a detailed discography and lists of songs and films.

It all happened in America in the 1920s: blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals. Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington, Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, and Porter, all burst on to the musical scene in this decade. Harlem celebrated its own artistic and musical renaissance, while the world of prohibition, extravagant parties, and speakeasies produced timeless tunes such as ''Stardust'' and ''Tea for Two''. Christened by F. Scott Fitzgerald and declared ''open'' by Louis Armstrong, the Jazz Age saw the flowering of the most prolific musical talents of this century.Arnold Shaw''s lively account embraces all the major personalities from instrumentalists to composers, and from singers to lyricists.The book includes a bibliography, a detailed discography, and lists of songs and films from the 1920s.

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