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Covers the music, the musicians, the instruments, and music's place in cultural history. Presents a history of each musical style, from its roots to its expression along with glimpses of the lives of leading composers and musicians. This volume focuses on the music style of jazz.
2) Soul
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A New York jazz musician suddenly finds himself stuck between Earth and the afterlife.
3) Tap and jazz
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Tap and Jazz provides a detailed look at the development of tap and jazz dance from its origins in African and Irish dances to street fusion jazz and modern tap companies such as Tap Dogs today. The book looks at how the choreography and improvisation differs from other styles of dance. It takes a close look at the specific costumes and make-up used in tap and jazz and its development in the movies.
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"What does the perfect song sound like? Normally, Malcolm Kid wouldn't give this type of question the time of day. As a straight B-student with a heart of copper, he is far more concerned with overcoming mediocrity than he is with achieving perfection. But that all changes when he stumbles across the LK-2000--a strange keyboard cursed with the soul of an old jazz musician. Malcolm soon learns that the only way to free this musician's soul is by performing...
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"The other great Renaissance of black culture, influence, and glamour burst forth joyfully in what may seem an unlikely place--Pittsburgh, PA--from the 1920s through the 1950s. Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble but doomed working-class strivers. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem and Chicago. It published the most widely...