The Jazz Age : Popular Music in the 1920s
by
Arnold Shaw
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
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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