The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s

by Arnold Shaw

Book Overview

F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in The Jazz Age. Spicing his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of
significant musical innovations that emerged during the Roaring Twenties--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas and musicals--and sets them against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195038916
• ISBN13: 9780195038910
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.6"