creations, explaining how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how

of American music. His unflagging creativity galvanized the most prominent jazz musicians in the

step (about jazz music) that is used throughout the book. *Discusses Schema design in large

-- Afro-Celtic Fusion -- PART I -- Minstrelsy, or Get Out de Way -- America's First Music Craze -- The Horrors

In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz

enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity

University. He is the author of Metal, Rock and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience

Sights and Sounds of Jazz -- Black-and-Tan Cabarets: Music and Difference -- ''Butchers and Barbers and