Jazz city : the impact of our cities on the development of jazz / Leroy Ostransky.

Author/creator Ostransky, Leroy
Format Book
Publication InfoEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, ©1978.
Descriptionxvi, 274 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects

SeriesA Spectrum book
Contents Early New Orleans: the most wicked city -- Nineteenth-century New Orleans: plagues, Creoles, and storyville -- New Orleans jazz: the earliest stirrings -- Chicago: the making of a transport city -- Chicago: the wide-open black belt -- Chicago jazz: New Orleans blacks and Chicago whites -- Kansas City: the development of its spirit -- Kansas City: the jazz development -- New York: prohibition, politics, and Harlem -- New York jazz: nightlife, big bands, the spread.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 249-256) and index.
Bibliography noteDiscography: pages 251-264.
LCCN 78018492
ISBN0135093805 (pbk.)
ISBN0135093724

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML3508 .O84 1978 ✔ Available Place Hold