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By Marc Myers

ISBN-10: 0520268784

ISBN-13: 9780520268784

Why Jazz Happened is the 1st complete social historical past of jazz. It presents an intimate and compelling examine the various forces that formed this so much American of artwork varieties and the numerous impacts that gave upward thrust to jazz’s post-war kinds. wealthy with the voices of musicians, manufacturers, promoters, and others at the scene throughout the a long time following global conflict II, this e-book perspectives jazz’s evolution throughout the prism of technological advances, social variations, adjustments within the legislation, financial developments, and lots more and plenty extra.

In an soaking up narrative enlivened via the statement of key personalities, Marc Myers describes the myriad of occasions and developments that affected the music's evolution, between them, the yank Federation of Musicians strike within the early Forties, alterations in radio and concert-promotion, the creation of the long-playing list, the suburbanization of l. a., the Civil Rights circulate, the "British invasion" and the increase of digital tools. This groundbreaking booklet deepens our appreciation of this tune through deciding on the various advancements open air of jazz itself that contributed such a lot to its texture, complexity, and growth.

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