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The Creation Of Jazz Music, Race And Culture In Urban America  Burton
W. PerettiUniversity of Illinois Press, 1994 Paperback. 292pp. b&w illustrations £13.99 This fascinating account of how the racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz is the first comprehensive analysis of the role of jazz in its formative years. "Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanisation, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and use of drugs. Peretti places jazz in its rich social context' - LIBRARY JOURNAL "…Peretti makes judicious use of oral histories and secondary works to develop a primarily topical approach…locating the creation of jazz within the shifting boundaries of geographical and professional communities, which were often defined in response to larger social divisions based on race." - KATHY J. OGREN, American Historical Review "Peretti's great success is that he compels into collective narrative form the many individual histories that have come down to us, giving context and resonance to that anecdotal raw material, which until this book has been largely the special preserve of the jazz fan." - DAVID AYERS, Journal of American Studies "Traces the culture of jazz from its rural roots in the nineteenth century to its first flowering in New Orleans early in this century and its dissemination into the cities of the North, primarily Chicago and New York, through 1940…A valuable sociocultural study of early jazz." - K.R. DIETRICH, Choice BURTON W. PERETTI is a member of the faculty at Western Connecticut State University. |
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