Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019)

Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019) explores the tremendous evolution of jazz over the past 125 years, through struggles for racial and gender equality, major demographic upheavals, startling technological innovations, economic and political turmoil, and music-business practices. Taking an expansive view of the music, the book includes such genres as ragtime, orchestral jazz, the New Orleans style, crooners, big bands, bebop, soul jazz, free jazz, fusion, acid jazz, and hip-hop jazz. It also includes interactive listening guides that strengthen students' comprehension of the material.

One of the only textbooks on the market that covers jazz to the present day, Jazz: Race and Social Change (1870-2019) provides unique social and cultural coverage of jazz's entanglement with the pursuits of racial, gender, and economic equality.

Author: David Szatmary
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/01/2020
Pages: 496
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.30w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780190846121
ISBN10: 0190846127
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Jazz

About the Author

David Szatmary has taught American, African-American, and music history at the University of Arizona and the University of Washington, where he was also Vice Provost for thirty years. He has written Rockin' In Time: A Social History of Rock and Roll, now in its ninth edition (2018) and A Time to Rock (1996). Szatmary has contributed to the AllMusic Guides to rock and jazz, has reviewed music publications extensively for Library Journal, and also has appeared on radio and television as an expert on music.