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To Jazz, or Not to Jazz

2023
As jazz was starting to gain traction in American popular culture, numerous individuals sought to take advantage of the music’s growing popularity. The relatively nebulous state of knowledge about this new form presented an opportunity for authors and publishers to capitalize on these developments, In the process, they sought to construct particular ...
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Jazz, Jazz, Jazz

2022
This chapter surveys Buck and Bubbles’s career in the early 1930s. During this period, the two actors reached the peak of their popularity and critical acclaim. At the same time, vaudeville, their customary meal ticket, was declining while Black jazz was attracting more and more adherents.
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Jazz and Jazz Theory

2021
The question “what is jazz?” has been asked regularly since the origins of this music in the early 20th century. Over this time, jazz has undergone many changes, but certain characteristics—such as a particular kind of syncopated rhythm, improvisation, and tonal harmony—have remained more or less constant.
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Why Call It Latin Jazz? Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just . . . Jazz

2020
This chapter explores how Latin jazz is positioned and named and the primary discursive contestations associated with the genre. What is focused on in particular is how musicians exert agency by manipulating generic boundaries as a negotiative tool. With a focus on two prominent bandleaders as case studies, Arturo O’Farrill and Ray Barretto, discursive
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Jazz in Worship and Worship in Jazz

2021
Jazz in Worship and Worship in Jazz The musical language of Liturgical, Sacred, and Spiritual Jazz in a postsecular Age. Abstract The aim of this dissertation is to identify musical elements that contribute to the generation of religious meaning in jazz performance and to explore how religious experience can inspire jazz composition. In this study,
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Jazz Here and Jazz There

During the transition from omnibus to format radio, two actors rise to prominence, the record and the DJ. It was only in the 1950s that the record and radio industries begin a real and symbiotic partnership. A corps of DJs that specialized in jazz emerged hosting both record shows and live remote jazz performances.
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Jazz worlds/world jazz

Ethnomusicology Forum, 2017
Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is an illuminating volume that investigates the sonic diaspora of jazz and its fusion with indigenous music in diverse cultures worldwide.
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Silhouettes of jazz

ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival, 2009
The viewer is guided through the history of jazz by examining sculptures that exhibit distinct silhouettes when viewed from different angles in a virtual walkthrough of a shadow art museum. Shadow art is a unique form of sculptural art that exploits the fact that we can recognize objects from their shadows or silhouettes.
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