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Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019)

by David Szatmary

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Jazz history through the forces that shaped it

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Jazz history through the forces that shaped it

David Szatmary organizes 125 years of jazz history around the social conditions surrounding the music: struggles for racial, gender, and economic equality; demographic change; technology; political and economic disruption; and the practices of the music business. The scope reaches from ragtime and early New Orleans styles through big bands, bebop, free jazz, fusion, acid jazz, and hip-hop jazz, treating jazz as a changing network of genres rather than a fixed tradition. Interactive listening guides add a practical study component, helping connect historical discussion with musical examples. The book’s 1870–2019 frame makes it a broad cultural history as well as a genre survey.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Students seeking a jazz history textbook with listening-based study support
  • Readers interested in jazz’s connections to race, gender, economics, and politics
  • Music-history learners wanting coverage from ragtime to hip-hop jazz

Themes

Jazz historyRace and social changeGender equalityMusic industry and technologyJazz genres

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Book overview

Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019) explores the tremendous evolution of jazz over the past 125 years, through struggles for racial and gender equality, major demographic upheavals, startling technological innovations, economic and political turmoil, and music-business practices. Taking an expansive view of the music, the book includes such genres as ragtime, orchestral jazz, the New Orleans style, crooners, big bands, bebop, soul jazz, free jazz, fusion, acid jazz, and hip-hop jazz. It also includes interactive listening guides that strengthen students' comprehension of the material.

One of the only textbooks on the market that covers jazz to the present day, Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019) provides unique social and cultural coverage of jazz's entanglement with the pursuits of racial, gender, and economic equality.
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