The Jazz Age

Popular Music in the 1920's

By: Arnold Shaw

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Paperback | 1 January 1996

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F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper and the Gangster.
The Jazz Age offers an insider's view into the significant developments and personalities of the jazz age, including the maturation and Americanization of the Broadway musical theater, the explosion of the arts celebrated in the Harlem Renaissance, the rise of the Classic Blues Singers, and the evolution of ragtime into stride piano. It also contains a bibliography, detailed discography, and listings of the songs of the twenties in Variety's "Golden 100" and of films featuring singers and songwriters of the era.

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`Arnold Shaw has produced an interesting history of the music of the twenties, relating it strongly to the social and political influences of the decade. Agreeably anecdotal, the whole making up a rich kaleidoscope which will be of use to researchers as well as to the general reader ' Stage and Television - November 1988 `Shaw's research also yields an attractive breadth of biography and social history. He sketches all sorts of luminaries of the time, producing a rich harvest of anecdote along the way. ' Country Life `lively account of the Roaring 20s in America ' Publishing News `Arnold Shaw has written an authoritative, exuberant, encyclopaedic book ... Shaw's knowledge ... appears infinite. Panoramic in scope, exhaustive in detail and affectionate in tone, The Jazz Age will be pored over by those who are enraptured by the period. ' David Dale, The Times `eminently readable essays ... At #5.95 Lee's book is a snip.' New Musical Express `this book is so full of inside information on the era it's almost unbelievable ... a lively informative book which will be a joy to many ... Fine detail and an engaging style ... a great read. ' Bernie Ralphs, Beat Scene `a feast for jazz-lovers ... goes into the jazz history of what were called the "Roaring Twenties" with a wealth of detail ' Kieran Nally, Irish Independent

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The Jazz Age
"Flappers Are We"	p. 3
King Oliver, Jelly Roll, and Satchmo	p. 14
Bix, Austin High, and Chicago Style	p. 31
Pops and Smack	p. 41
The Harlem Renaissance
Duke, Ethel, and the Harlem Scene	p. 57
"The Birth of the Blues"	p. 67
"Kitten on the Keys"	p. 80
Shuffle Along	p. 88
Tin Pan Alley
"Dardanella"	p. 95
"The Sheik of Araby"	p. 111
"Three O'Clock in the Morning"	p. 120
"Yes! We Have No Bananas"/"Charleston"	p. 132
"Rhapsody and Romance in Blue"	p. 142
"Tea for Two"	p. 157
"The Black Bottom"	p. 170
"Talkies" and Theme Songs	p. 184
"The Singing Fool"	p. 200
California Gold Rush	p. 213
The Musical Theatre
The Musical Revue	p. 231
The Golden Coterie	p. 250
The Operetta Revival	p. 271
Song Laureate of the Roaring Twenties	p. 275
Epilogue	p. 285
Notes	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 303
Discography	p. 311
Variety's "Golden 100 Tin Pan Alley Songs"	p. 319
Index	p. 321
Song Index	p. 339
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