Jazz: A Peoples Music

by Sidney Walter Finkelstein

Book Overview

This book is one of the most improtant works ever written on Jazz music. It is a virtual manifesto agains the ghettoization and the racist pigeonholing thast has afflicted the public's appreciation of this great music since its beginnings as ragtime a century ago. It exposes the lies and misconceptions that have surrounded this music, the attempts-made anew, it seems, each decade-to deny that jazz is one of the leading artistic forces of our time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0717807614
• ISBN13: 9780717807611
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: International Publishers
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"