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Discover the whole world of Jazz! An inclusive, contextual, and student-friendly way to discover the whole world of jazz. Discover Jazz presents an inclusive overview of the history of jazz, with balanced coverage of the contributions of men and women from around the world. Emphasizing the importance of context, the text presents the story of jazz not as a simple narrative, but as a series of encounters among musicians, historical events, musical influences, and social forces. And, this student-friendly text gives readers the tools they need to actively listen to-and build their own relationships with-this great American art form. Teaching and Learning Experience Personalize Learning- The new MyMusicLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Active Listening- The authors bring the music to the foreground for the student, helping students listen to and analyze the music.Engage Student- The design of Discover Jazz alone will engage students, while key features such as the Closer Look and Issues boxes will actively involve them in learning about jazz throughout the text. Support Instructors- Discover Jazz comes with a complete support package for the instructor ranging from MyMusicLab and ClassPrep, to testing material. Note: MyMusicLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyMusicLab, please visit: www.MyMusicLab.com or you can purchase a valuepack of the text + MyMusicLab (at no additional cost): VP ISBN-10: 0205201164, ISBN-13: 9780205201167
Contents
IN THIS SECTIONCONTENTS: Chapter 1: Introducing Jazz Chapter 2: Listening to Jazz Chapter 3: The Birth of Jazz Chapter 4: Early Jazz Chapter 5: The Swing Era Chapter 6: Bebop and Modern Jazz Chapter 7: Mainstream Jazz Chapter 8: Free and Exploratory Jazz Chapter 9: Fusion Chapter 10: Latin Jazz Chapter 11: Jazz Worldwide Chapter 12: Jazz Forward COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter 1: Introducing Jazz - Tad Lathrop and John Edward Hasse Take Note ISSUES: Jazz as an "American" Art Form by Richard Carlin STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Listening with Untrained Ears by Tad Lathrop First Listening Listening with Untrained Ears Defining Jazz: A Beginning Improvisation in Jazz Other Dimensions of Jazz Jazz and Society Jazz and the Arts Social Life and Issues Jazz and Historic Trends National Identity Racial Identity ISSUES: Jazz as African-American Music by Tad Lathrop Cultural Significance Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 2: Listening to Jazz - Tad Lathrop and John Edward Hasse Take Note Listening Focus: Melody Listening Tips for Jazz Melody Listening Focus: Harmony Listening Tips for Jazz Harmony Listening Focus: Rhythm Listening Tips for Jazz Rhythm Listening Focus: Form and Structure Chorus Form Compound Form Listening Tips for Jazz Form and Structure Listening Focus: Color and Texture Listening Tips for Jazz Color and Texture Listening Focus: Voice, Feel, and Expression Listening Tips for Voice, Feel, and Expression Listening Focus: Improvisation Listening Tips for Jazz Improvisation Listening Focus: Style and Experimentation Listening Tips for Style and Experimentation Musicians' Roles, Individual and Collective STYLE/TECHNIQUE: The Team Sport of Jazz by John Edward Hasse Listening Tips for Musicians' Interaction Jazz as an Art Form STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Standard Practices in Jazz Listening Tips Wrap-Up Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 3: The Birth of Jazz - John Edward Hasse Take Note Timeline Old-World Roots African Influences LISTENING FOCUS: Simpa (Fire) European Influences New Orleans New Orleans' Six Jazz-Creating Conditions LISTENING GUIDE: In Gloryland HISTORY/CULTURE: Parading with a Brass Band by Michael White Musical Antecedents The Blues LISTENING FOCUS: Old John Henry Died on the Mountain LISTENING FOCUS: Boll Weevil JAZZ CLASSICS: St. Louis Blues Ragging and Ragtime LISTENING GUIDE: Maple Leaf Rag ISSUES: The Ragtime Wars Jazz: An Improvisational Music for Dancing New Orleans Notables LISTENING FOCUS: Livery Stable Blues, New Orleans Style and "Jass" Variants JAZZ CLASSICS: Tiger Rag by Jack Stewart Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 4: Early Jazz - Michael Brooks Take Note Timeline Chicago LISTENING FOCUS: Dipper Mouth Blues LISTENING GUIDE: West End Blues LISTENING GUIDE: Black Bottom Stomp Kansas City New York White Bands JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The First Half of the 20th Century by Jeffrey Magee Harlem and the Cotton Club LISTENING GUIDE: Black and Tan Fantasy HISTORY/CULTURE: The Cotton Club by John Edward Hasse JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Tap by Rusty Frank Vocalists Jazz Arrangers of the '20s Regional Bands ISSUES: Jazz: Musical Virtue or Vice? by Tad Lathrop Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 5: The Swing Era - John Edward Hasse Take Note Timeline Jazz: A Mass Attraction JAZZ AND THE ARTS: The Swing Dances STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Big Band, Big Sound by Tad Lathrop The Great Black Bands HISTORY/CULTURE: Stompin' at the Savoy LISTENING GUIDE: Ko-Ko LISTENING GUIDE: One O'Clock Jump The Great White Bands LISTENING GUIDE: Honeysuckle Rose Big-Band Care and Maintenance All-Women Bands Shapers of the Sound STYLE/TECHNIQUE: What Does an Arranger Do? Anatomy of an Arrangement Small Groups and Solo Artists Solo Instrumentalists LISTENING FOCUS: Body and Soul Singers HISTORY/CULTURE: John Hammond: Talent Scout, Jazz Catalyst HISTORY/CULTURE: The New Orleans Revival The End of the Swing Era STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Boogie-Woogie Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 6: Bebop and Modern Jazz - Bob Blumenthal Take Note Timeline The Postwar Jazz Scene HISTORY/CULTURE: After Hours at Minton's Parker, Gillespie, and the Birth of Bebop LISTENING GUIDE: Shaw 'Nuff ISSUES: Boppers Versus Moldy Figs by John Edward Hasse LISTENING GUIDE: Embraceable You, Take A STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Old Chords, New Melodies HISTORY/CULTURE: Swing Street by Tad Lathrop HISTORY/CULTURE:: Big Bands in the Modern Era HISTORY/CULTURE: Norman Granz and Jazz at the Philharmonic ISSUES: The Jazz Musician as Outsider Piano Modernists LISTENING GUIDE: Misterioso JAZZ CLASSICS: 'Round Midnight by David Baker Cool Jazz and the West Coast Scene LISTENING GUIDE: Boplicity JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Film by Krin Gabbard Beyond the Cool JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz Poetry by Sascha Feinstein Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 7: Mainstream Jazz - Neil Tesser Take Note Timeline Setting the Stage Miles Ahead The Birth of Hard Bop LISTENING GUIDE: The Preacher HISTORY/CULTURE: New York Nights by Tad Lathrop West-Coast Bop STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Breaks and Fours by David Baker Three Tenor Torchbearers: Gordon, Rollins, and Coltrane LISTENING GUIDE: Giant Steps TWO TAKES ON THE PIANO LISTENING GUIDE: Blue Rondo a la Turk Soul Jazz ISSUES: Jazz and Religion by John Edward Hasse HISTORY/CULTURE: Down Beat and the Jazz Magazines HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Festivals Continuing Traditions JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Television by Larry Appelbaum Vocalists of the Mainstream Era JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Fiction by Gerald Early Alternate Currents JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Visual Art by Donna M. Cassidy LISTENING GUIDE: So What Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 8: Free and Exploratory Jazz - John Litweiler Take Note Timeline 1959: A Turning Point in Jazz History ISSUES: Jazz: The Sound of Freedom by Tad Lathrop and John Litweiler Free-Jazz Ancestors Free-Jazz Innovations Sonic Freedom Harmonic Freedom Formal Freedom Rhythmic Freedom STYLE/TECHNIQUE: How to Listen to Free Jazz Free-Jazz Innovators Coleman, Taylor, and Coltrane LISTENING GUIDE: Ramblin' HISTORY/CULTURE: The Loft Scene Jazz Underground Other Free Instrumentalists LISTENING GUIDE: Ghosts (First Variation) LISTENING GUIDE: Bush Magic HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Cooperatives Free Spaces JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz on Radio by William H. Kenney, John Edward Hasse, and Tad Lathrop Experimental Composers JAZZ AND THE ARTS: Jazz and Classical Music: The Second Half of the Twentieth Century ISSUES: The Growing Role of Women in Jazz Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 9: Fusion - Stephen F. Pond Take Note Timeline Defining Fusion Jazz Foreshadowing Fusion Early Mixes Rock, Funk, and the Climate for Fusion Early Fusions Miles Davis: Fusion Pioneer LISTENING GUIDE: Miles Runs the Voodoo Down(single version) Fusion in the Early '70s STYLE/DEVELOPMENT: Offspring of Bitches Brew Lifetime Mahavishnu Orchestra Weather Report LISTENING GUIDE: Birdland Return to Forever Headhunters LISTENING GUIDE: Watermelon Man HISTORY/CULTURE: The Soul-Funk Connection R&B Fusion Polishing and Popularizing Fusion ISSUES: Jazz Versus Fusion Later Fusions LISTENING GUIDE: Bright Size Life Conclusino HISTORY/CULTURE: Hip-Hop and Jazz by William E. Smith JAZZ CLASSICS: Post-Mainstream Jazz Standards by David Baise Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 10: Latin Jazz - Isabelle Leymarie, Tad Lathrop, and John Edward Hasse Take Note Common Sources, Different Sounds ISSUES: Music of Hope and Survival by Tad Lathrop A Heritage of Rhythm and Percussion Cuban Roots STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Cuban Rhythms by Isabelle Leymarie Brazilian Roots STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Brazilian Rhythms by Isabelle Leymarie STYLE/TECHNIQUE: Comparing Aspects of North American, Afro-Cuban, and Brazilian Jazz by Tad Lathrop Early Latin Influences on Jazz JAZZ CLASSICS: Caravan by John Edward Hasse Cuban Music and Jazz LISTENING GUIDE: Manteca LISTENING GUIDE: Airegin Brazilian Music and Jazz LISTENING GUIDE: The Girl from Ipanema, More Sounds from the Caribbean Later Trends in Latin and Caribbean Jazz Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 11: Jazz Worldwide - Kevin Whitehead Take Note Jazz in Europe The Early Years HISTORY/CULTURE: Le Jazz Hot: Jazz in Paris Between the Wars by Philippe Baudoin LISTENING GUIDE: Minor Swing Controversies The War Years and After ISSUES: Jazz Under the Nazis by Rainer Lotz Regional Conceptions of Jazz Home-grown European Musicians and Styles Jazz in Asia and Oceania LISTENING GUIDE: Ting Ning Jazz in the Middle East Jazz in Africa South Africa LISTENING GUIDE: Mannenberg Revisited Ethiopia Senegal Other Locales Global Jazz in the 21st Century Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Chapter 12: Jazz Forward - Jose Antonio Bowen Take Note The Continuing Life of Mainstream Acoustic Jazz HISTORY/CULTURE: Institutional Jazz Programs by John Edward Hasse HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz Museums by John Edward Hasse Wynton Marsalis and the Hard-Bop Revival LISTENING GUIDE: Down the Avenue HISTORY/CULTURE: The Big-Band Revival by Calvin Wilson and Tad Lathrop Avant-Garde Jazz Continues to Grow STYLE/TECHNIQUE: So Solos Aren't Important After All? New Collectives and Ethnic Jazz ISSUES: Jazz and Race Revisited LISTENING GUIDE: The Glide Was in the Ride Reenvisioning Jazz LISTENING GUIDE: Planet Rock Vocal Jazz HISTORY/CULTURE: Vocal Groups HISTORY/CULTURE: Jazz in the Marketplace Conclusion Chapter Summary Discussion Questions Key Terms and Key People Glossary Notes Essential Jazz Reading The Contributors Credits Index
