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5 Jazz an American story

FURTHER READING

Thinking in Jazz, by Paul Berliner

(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American

Working Class, by Eric Lott (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

Stomping the Blues, by Albert Murray

(New York: Da Capo Press, 1989).

The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, by Robert G. O’Meally

(New York: Columbia University Press, 1998).

Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies,

by Robert O’Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).

The Jazz Tradition, by Martin Williams

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS

Martin Scorcese Presents The Blues, 2003

www.pbs.org/theblues/index.html

ONLINE RESOURCES

Blackface Minstrelsy 1830–1852

www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/mihp.html

PBS American Experience: “Stephen Foster/Blackface Minstrelsy”

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/sfeature/sf_minstrelsy.html

Jazz Profiles from NPR: “Women In Jazz,” parts 1 and 2

www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/women_1.html

Jazz Profiles from NPR: “Today’s Generation: Ups & Downs”

www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/new_generation.html

Jazz for Young People Online: The Blues and Improvisation

www.jalc.org/jazzED/4jyp_curr/contentspage/html

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