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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.
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Marshall W. Stearns is at The Institute of Jazz Studies.
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Oxford University Press, 1956
ISBN 10: 019500115X
ISBN 13: 9780195001150
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