Between the mid-1930s and the late'40s, the center of the jazz world was a two-block stretch
of 52nd Street in Manhattan. Dozens of crowded basement clubs between Fifth and Seventh …

After twenty years in the marginal wilderness, jazz is gearing up to slip out of its ghetto
again. While it's still true that only 3—4 percent of recording consumers pick up the CDs in …

As musicians, listeners, and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is more
than a history of the music. Burton Peretti presents a fascinating account of how the racial …

On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was
central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots …

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural
exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most …

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION (1957)-Jazz at last has matured to a full-fledged art, not only in
this country, hut throughout the world as well. What has been known as an American folk …

Amy Absher's The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American
musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting the segregated city …

By the time Jimi Hendrix died in 1970, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock
band seemed exotic. Yet a mere ten years earlier, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley had stood …

Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans's history, uncovering a web of racial
interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art …

Most pop songs are short-lived. They appear suddenly and, if they catch on, seem to be
everywhere at once before disappearing again into obscurity. Yet some songs resonate …