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, Marc Myers describes
the myriad of events and trends that affected the music's evolution,
among them, the American Federation of Musicians strike in the early
1940s, changes in radio and concert-promotion, the introduction of the
long-playing record, the suburbanization of Los Angeles, the Civil
Rights movement, the “British invasion” and the rise of electronic
instruments. This groundbreaking book deepens our appreciation of this
music by identifying many of the developments outside of jazz itself
that contributed most to its texture, complexity, and growth.
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