The First Book of Jazz Signed/inscribed By Langston Hughes (First Printing)

By Edna Parks

An introduction to jazz which focuses on its historical development. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B00N329YTU
• Release Date: January 1955
• Publisher: Franklin Watts, Inc.
• Length: 65 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Young People's Guide to Jazz

Langston Hughes, one of our greatest writers and poets, was also a jazz fan. In this slim book , he traces the development of jazz, hitting all the basic elements: African polyrhythmic drumming transported to Congo Square in New Orleans, work songs and slave songs, homemade instruments, spirituals, the blues, ragtime, minstrel shows, improvisation, the spread of jazz to New York and Chicago and the regional bands, the influence...

Please reissue this book!

I read this book transrated in Japanese. I could enjoy the rhythm and phrases even in Japanese. I would like to read it in English now.