Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz [Advance Uncorrected Proofs]

Advance Reader's Copy of Uncorrected Proofs of First Edition, 1st printing, in paperback. "Anyone interested in learning about a distinctly American music---jazz---will welcome this addition to the popular 101 reference series. Jazz may not be America's only original art form, but it is the quintessential American music. Noted anthropologist, critic, and musical scholar John F. Szwed takes readers on a tour of the music's tangled history and explores how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant grade in less than fifty years. JAZZ 101 presents key figures, history, theory, and controversies that shaped its development, along with a discussion of some of its most important recordings. It offers insightful commentary on how jazz helped shape 20th-century American painting, film, poetry, dance, fiction, pop and classical music, and the consciousness of what it means to be American." Bright, clean & tight ARC copy, unread, in FINE condition, w/sharp corners & crisp edges, no creases in spine & no jacket as issued.…