The culture of jazz jazz as critical culture / by Salamone, Frank A.

Table of Contents: “…The culture of jazz and jazz as critical culture -- Music and anthropology -- Teaching the culture of jazz -- Africa as a metaphor of authenticity in jazz -- The spread of American music to the international scene -- Jazz and its impact on European classical music -- Creole performance and the mass -- Jazz in Rochester in the context of the wider scene -- Stereotype and reality : social and cultural characteristics of members of the Down Beat hall of fame -- Laughin' Louie : an analysis of Louis Armstrong's record and its relationship to African-American musical humor -- Dizzy, humor, and subversion of accepted reality -- From the Cotton Club to the cathedral -- Boppers and moldy figs : a tale of two cultures -- The force primeval : the image of jazz in American literature -- Puttin' it on -- Did they make the scene or did the scene make them? …”
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Tales of the Jazz Age by Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940 (Francis Scott)

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Annual review of jazz studies

Subjects: “…Jazz History and criticism…”
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Sensation Jazz One-Step

Subjects: “…Jazz -- To 1921…”
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Jazz de Luxe Fox Trot by Fuller, Earl

Subjects: “…Jazz -- To 1921…”
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Clarinet Squawk One Step

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"Do you know--?" the jazz repertoire in action / by Faulkner, Robert R.

Subjects: “…Jazz Social aspects.…”
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For the thrill of it Leopold, Loeb, and the murder that shocked jazz age Chicago by Baatz, Simon

The dudley Smith Trio The big nowhere L.A confidential white jazz by Ellroy lhJames

Duke Ellington his life in jazz with 21 activities / by Stein Crease, Stephanie

Subjects: “…Jazz musicians United States Biography.…”
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Blues my Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me by Harry Raderman's Jazz Orchestra

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Music theory through improvisation a new approach to musicianship training / by Sarath, Ed

Table of Contents: “…Improvisation across boundaries : a trans-stylistic approach -- Music fundamentals -- Modality and rhythm I : time feels -- Modality and rhythm II : small group framework -- Basic tonal materials : triads and seventh chords -- Harmonic functions -- Swing : gloval rhythmic gateway -- Melodic line construction and harmonization -- Chord inversion present and past -- Non-diatonic harmony I : applied chords -- Non-diatonic harmony II : modal mixture -- Figured bass realization at the keyboard -- Extended chords -- Altered extensions -- Diverse approaches to analysis -- Fine-tuning and expanding the jazz palette.…”
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Early twentieth-century brass idioms art, jazz, and other popular traditions : proceedings of the international conference presented by the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University and the Historic Brass Society, November 4-5, 2005 /

Table of Contents: “…: the social and musical textures of early jazz / Thomas Brothers -- How the jazz artist practices / Jimmy Owens -- Struttin' with some brass : African American transformations of the trumpet / Krin Gabbard -- An interview with trumpet legends William Fielder and Joe Wilder / Ed Berger -- Expanding parameters on brass bands in early New Orleans jazz / Bruce Boyd Raeburn -- Performance practice techniques of the James Reese Europe Band / Reid Badger -- Italian jazz trumpet style : American and European influences during fascism (1920-1940) / Luca Cerchiari -- "Like a string of pearls" : reflections on the role of brass instrumentalists in Jewish instrumental Klezmer music and the trope of "Jewish jazz" / Joel E. …”
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Lift every voice the history of African-American music / by Peretti, Burton W. (Burton William), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…From West Africa to slavery -- Jubilee and Tin Pan Alley : contrasting sounds of freedom -- The rise of ragtime and the blues -- The emergence of jazz -- Jazz at the Philharmonic : the jazz avant-garde and black classical expression -- Gospel, freedom songs, and the struggle for equality -- Black popular music as big business.…”
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Inventing America a history of the United States

China, India, Japan and the security of Southeast Asia

Table of Contents: “…Regional perceptions of China and Japan -- The classical conductor and the jazz band : Chinese foreign policy towards Asia in the 1990s -- India's security policy : desire and necessity in a changing world -- Japan in post-cold war Asia -- Japan's policy towards Southeast Asia : anatomy of 'autonomous diplomacy' and the American factor -- India-ASEAN relations : evolution, growth, and prospects -- Major concerns in China's ASEAN policy -- ASEAN and the South China Sea problem -- Changes and continuity in Indonesia's regional outlook -- Vietnam in post-cold war Asia : a cautious hand at the wheel -- The Southeast Asian experience of regional order : past and future trends.…”

Bloomsbury dictionary of music by Morehead, Philip D.

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One Malaysia, under God, bipolar essays on society, schooling, and salvation by Azly Rahman

Table of Contents: “…-- Teluk Intran and all that jazz -- The political economy of monarchy -- How we will be doomed as a nation -- 'Pendatang' and other manufactured crises -- What UMNO reps need to talk about -- From tom yum to nasi kandaq effect -- Major flood because of no hudud? …”

The king never smiles a biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej by Handley, Paul M. 1955-