Why jazz happened /Marc Myers.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Record giants blink -- DJs, promoters, and bebop -- G.I. Bill and cool -- Speed war, tape, and solos -- Suburbia and West Coast jazz -- BMI, R and B, and hard bop -- Bias, Africa, and spiritual jazz -- Invasion and jazz-pop -- Alienation and the avant-garde -- Lights, volume, and fusion -- Jazz hangs on.
Why Jazz Happened is the first comprehensive social history of jazz. It provides an intimate and compelling look at the many forces that shaped this most American of art forms and the many influences that gave rise to jazz's post-war styles. Rich with the voices of musicians, producers, promoters, and others on the scene during the decades following World War II, this book views jazz's evolution through the prism of technological advances, social transformations, changes in the law, economic trends, and much more. In an absorbing narrative enlivened by the commentary of key personalities, Mar.