popular-this highly engaging book offers a compelling new integrated view of twentieth-century music. Placing

works added. Additions include an entirely new section devoted to jazz and blues songs, an overview of

-- Improvisations -- Afrological and Eurological Improvisations -- Literary Improvisation, Jazz, and Modernism

-- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Causes -- 2. Making America More Musical: The Phonograph and "Good Music

jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core, in the creation of music through

in the 1950s and 60s, and develops a new framework for thinking through the relationships among music

) "Creole" -- Appendix 4: On the History of the Word "Jazz" -- Appendix 5: Jelly Roll Morton on Freddie

celebrate the 70th birthday of the author-one of the funkiest musicians alive-and will be enjoyed by jazz

Dominican Republic Sydney -- Chapter 13 Between the Folds of Luiz Gonzaga's Sanfona: Forró Music in Brazil

jazz, and bebop? What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women's Club Movement

Jazz in France -- 4. La Cause du Pop -- 5. Contemporary Music, Animation, and Cultural Democratization

-- 5. The Organization of Attention in Two Jazz Scenes -- 6. The Organization of Attention in the Rock