The Story of Jazz

by Jean Stearns and Marshall W. Stearns

Book Overview

The effect of jazz upon American culture and the American character has been all-pervasive. This superlative history is the first and the most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this unique American musical phenomenon. Stearns begins with the joining of the African Negro's musical heritage with European forms and the birth of jazz in New Orleans then follows its course through the era of swing and bop to the beginnings of rock in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195012690
• ISBN13: 9780195012699
• Release Date: September 1970
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

the best book on jazz ever written

an scholar approach full of wisdom and wit very, very insightful and entertaining one of the few real serious investigations

A classic!

Dr. Stearns's book still stands as a good source and has many clever insights. But Collier's "The Making of Jazz" clearly surpassed this book as the best history of Jazz.