Title Playing ad lib : improvisatory music in Australia, 1836-1970 / John Whiteoak

Published Strawberry Hills, N.S.W. : Currency Press, 1999

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Description xxii, 345 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm Contents 1. The approved genres before jazz -- 2. The anonymous genres -- 3. Early blackface minstrelsy -- 4. Ragtime and ragging in Australia -- 5. Jazzing -- 6. Towards experimentation -- 7. Beyond jazz improvisation -- Appendix. Concert programs. The Society for the Private Performance of New Music Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 332-333 Discography: pages 334-337 Subject Improvisation (Music) -- History and criticism. Jazz -- Australia -- History and criticism. Music -- Australia -- History and criticism. ISBN 086819543X (paperback)

Other Titles Improvisatory music in Australia 1836-1970

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