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American Jazz Music
by Hobson, Wilder
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
NY.NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1939. (Stated 1st edition). Hardbound. GOOD. READING COPY. Tight, clean unmarked text, square. Blue hardcover with silver titles and decoration,. No dust jacket. Stained spine. 230 indexed pages, with 6 black & white photos and a list of 30 records (available in 1939) which "have been chosen to suggest, within a narrow compass, the development of jazz from its folk sources. "a natural musical language which American musicians, Negroes and whites, have been speaking now for more than a quarter century (in 1939), which they play for their own pleasure. All of the commercial forms borrow from it to some extent; it is sometimes mixed with commercial; the same men often play both commercially and naturally. But the words jazz and swing are ambiguously applied to all the music..."
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1-6T006
- Title
- American Jazz Music
- Author
- Hobson, Wilder
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- (Stated 1st edition)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY.NY
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
Terms of Sale
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Bethel, Connecticut
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