F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman
and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles
this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately
called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively
anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of
significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring
Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas,
and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition
world of the Flapper and the Gangster.
The Jazz Age offers
an insider's view into the significant developments and personalities of
the jazz age, including the maturation and Americanization of the
Broadway musical theater, the explosion of the arts celebrated in the
Harlem Renaissance, the rise of the Classic Blues Singers, and the
evolution of ragtime into stride piano. It also contains a bibliography,
detailed discography, and listings of the songs of the twenties in Variety's "Golden 100" and of films featuring singers and songwriters of the era.
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