Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Gitler, Ira

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195050707)

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Format: Paperback
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Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Gitler, Ira

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

$43.99
Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Gitler, Ira

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s

$43.99
Format: Paperback
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This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of bop in the late 1930s and '40s. Ira Gitler interviewed more than 50 leading jazz figures, over a 10-year period, to preserve for posterity their recollections of the transition in jazz from the big band era to the modern jazz period. The musicians interviewed, including both the acclaimed and the unrecorded, tell in their own words how this renegade music emerged, why it was a turning point in American jazz, and how it influenced their own lives and work. Placing jazz in historical context, Gitler demonstrates how the mood of the nation in its post-Depression years, racial attitudes of the time, and World War II combined to shape the jazz of today.

Author: Ira Gitler
ISBN-10: 0195050703
ISBN-13: 9780195050707
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/28/1987
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.24w x 0.93d
By Ira Gitler
By Ira Gitler
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Ira Gitler's writing has helped illuminate the jazz scene from 1951, when he wrote the first of countless album and CD annotations. He was the New York editor of Downbeat in the 1960s and continues to contribute to that publication, as well as to JazzTimes and Internet publications. His credits as a producer include recordings and concerts, and he teaches jazz history at the Manhattan School of Music. His books include the highly acclaimed Jazz Masters of the '40s and Swing to Bop, the latter written while he was a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.

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