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    Swingin' the dream big band jazz and the rebirth of American culture / by Erenberg, Lewis A., 1944-

    Published 1998
    Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. From jazz to swing, 1929-1935 -- pt. 2. Now they call it swing, 1935-1942 -- pt. 3. …”
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    Swingin' the dream big band jazz and the rebirth of American culture / by Erenberg, Lewis A., 1944-

    Published 1998
    Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. From jazz to swing, 1929-1935 -- pt. 2. Now they call it swing, 1935-1942 -- pt. 3. …”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook
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    Blowin' hot and cool jazz and its critics / by Gennari, John

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- Not only a new art form but a new reason for living -- As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting -- Across the color line -- Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.…”
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    Blowin' hot and cool jazz and its critics / by Gennari, John

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- Not only a new art form but a new reason for living -- As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm : hot collecting -- Across the color line -- Hearing 'the noisy lostness' : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century.…”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook
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    Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State by Oliphant, Dave

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Tuning up with a few introductory notes -- Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State -- The roots of Texan jazz -- From bebop to hard bop and beyond : the Texas jazz connections -- Texas bebop messengers to the world : Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright -- British acolytes of jazz and its Texas contingent -- The Wisconsin-Texas jazz nexus -- Jazz in literature -- The alchemy of jazz -- Ornette Coleman's harmolodic life -- A jazz master's diamond jubilee -- A Texas take on Ken Burns's Jazz -- Swinging through Texas on a Scottish air -- The birth of western swing -- The inventor of jazz revisited : untangling the legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax -- Discographies and Texan jazz -- San Marcos in jazz history.…”
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    Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State by Oliphant, Dave

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Tuning up with a few introductory notes -- Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State -- The roots of Texan jazz -- From bebop to hard bop and beyond : the Texas jazz connections -- Texas bebop messengers to the world : Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright -- British acolytes of jazz and its Texas contingent -- The Wisconsin-Texas jazz nexus -- Jazz in literature -- The alchemy of jazz -- Ornette Coleman's harmolodic life -- A jazz master's diamond jubilee -- A Texas take on Ken Burns's Jazz -- Swinging through Texas on a Scottish air -- The birth of western swing -- The inventor of jazz revisited : untangling the legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax -- Discographies and Texan jazz -- San Marcos in jazz history.…”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook
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    Music makes me Fred Astaire and jazz / by Decker, Todd R.

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Astaire at the studios: "I play with the very best bands" ; "Tell them to let it swing" ; "Fixing up" tunes -- pt. 3. Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance."…”
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    Music makes me Fred Astaire and jazz / by Decker, Todd R.

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Astaire at the studios: "I play with the very best bands" ; "Tell them to let it swing" ; "Fixing up" tunes -- pt. 3. Astaire in jazz and popular music: "Keep time with the time and with the times" ; "Jazz means the blues" ; "Anything that will send me" ; "You play and I'll dance."…”
    An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
    Electronic eBook