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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America

The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America

Peretti, Burton W.

Paperback

Series: Blacks in the New World

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Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 0252064216
ISBN13: 9780252064210
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: Aug 1 1994
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

The story of jazz is more than a history of the music. The racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz.

Burton W. Peretti's classic study charts the life of jazz culture from its origins in the jook joints of sharecroppers and the streets and dance halls of 1890s New Orleans to the eve of bebop and World War II. As Perett shows, jazz was the epic story of players who transitioned from childhood spasm bands to Carnegie Hall and worldwide touring and fame. It became the music of the Twenties, a decade of Prohibition, of adolescent discontent, of Harlem pride, and of Americans hoping to preserve cultural traditions in an urban, commercial age. Finally, jazz was where black and white musicians performed together, as uneasy partners, in the big bands of Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman.

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