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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 September 2011
      09 January 2003
      ISBN:
      9781139002233
      9780521663205
      9780521663885
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521663205
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.95kg, 426 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (248 x 175 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.87kg, 428 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Performance
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Music
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    Subjects:
    Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Performance
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Music
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    The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

    Reviews

    ‘… most of the writers in this Companion are academics, and it's hard to fault the obvious passion underlying their diverse points of view.’

    Source: BBC Music Magazine

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