Jazz & Blues (Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music) - Hardcover

Vulliamy, Graham

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9781138649705: Jazz & Blues (Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music)
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ISBN 10: 1138649708 ISBN 13: 9781138649705
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling. From their origin in the work songs and spirituals of America’s southern slaves, through to their adaptation to the urban adaptation to the urban environment in Chicago and New Orleans, the author details the social and economic background that saw the birth of the blues and jazz, and introduces and appraises their leading exponents. He shows how African rhythms were combined with an American musical tradition to produce a distinctive style which was to revitalise Western music.

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Graham Vulliamy

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138649708
ISBN 13 
9781138649705
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
170
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9780710008947: Jazz and Blues

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ISBN 10:  0710008945 ISBN 13:  9780710008947
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982
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