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Author Lopes, Paul Douglas.

Title The rise of a jazz art world / Paul Lopes
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 294 pages)
Contents Introduction: the quest for cultural legitimacy -- Before the Jazz Age: professional musicians and good music -- Jazz Age: professional musicians and the cultivated vernacular -- Swing craze: professional musicians, swing music and the art of improvisation -- Rise of a jazz art world: jazz enthusiasts, professional musicians and the modernist revolt -- New jazz age: the jazz art world and the modern jazz renaissance -- Conclusion: the jazz art world and American culture
Summary This book presents a unique sociological vision of the evolution of jazz music in the twentieth century. Analysing organizational structures and competing discourses in the field of American music, Paul Lopes shows how musicians and the art world that grew around them transformed the meaning and practice of jazz
Analysis Humaniora Musik
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jazz -- History and criticism
Music -- Social aspects.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
Jazz
Music -- Social aspects
Jazz.
Sociale aspecten.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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