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 …

This history of jazz, spanning the twentieth century, is the first to place it within the broad
context of American culture. Burton Peretti argues persuasively that this distinctive American …

Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product
of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of …

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 …

" From Buddy Collette's brilliant ruminations on Paul Robeson to Horace Tapscott's
extraordinary insights about artistic production and community life... this collection of oral …

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 …

The origins of jazz were in the barrelhouses of New Orleans and the speakeasies of
Chicago. By the nineteen fifties, a musical renaissance transformed jazz into a high art form …

Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of
changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also …

Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is" jazz-shaped," The Jazz
Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the …