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From Birdland to Broadway
Oxford University Press 1994; US$ 19.95An anecdotal autobiography of Bill Crow's career in jazz, from his arrival in New York City in the 1950s to his professional life as a jazz bassist, playing with the likes of Benny Goodman, Gerry Mulligan, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Marian McPartland. more...
Swing to Bop
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 25.95More than fifty major figures in jazz preserve for posterity their recollections of how jazz moved from the big band era in the late 1930s and 1940s into the modern jazz period. more...
Kansas City Jazz
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 19.99There were but four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them - New Orleans, Chicago, and New York - have been well-documented in print. In this colorful history, Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix range from ragtime to bebop and from Bennie Moten to Charlie Parker to capture the golden age of Kansas City jazz, the fourth. more...
The Jazz Scene
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 19.95This is an informal history of New Orleans jazz from the turn of the 20th century to the present day, as told by the musicians themselves in interviews conducted by the author. more...
The Jazz Tradition
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 39.99A blend of musical history and criticism, this study of jazz includes chapters on King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. In addition to an expanded essay on Count Basie, this edition includes pieces on Eric Dolphy, Bill Evans and the World Saxophone Quartet. more...
Music and Youth Culture
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 107.46Music and Youth Culture offers a groundbreaking account of how music interacts with young people?s everyday lives. Drawing on interviews with and observations of youth groups together with archival research, it explores young people?s enactment of music tastes and performances, and how these are articulated through narratives and literacies. An extensive... more...
Is Rock Dead?
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 36.95Rock and roll's death has been forecast nearly since its birth; the country song "The Death of Rock and Roll" appeared in September 1956, showing that the music had already outraged a more conservative listening audience. Is Rock Dead? sets out to explore the varied and sometimes conflicting ways in which the death of rock has been discussed both... more...
Louisiana Hayride
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 33.99Provides an examination of northwest Louisiana's unique musical milieu, home to the Louisiana Hayride, a radio barn dance between 1948 and 1960. The region's history, geography, race relations, media, and other forces set the stage for the Hayride's critical role in both country music and rock-and-roll. more...
The Science and Psychology of Music Performance
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 41.99Music educators and practicing musicians have failed to benefit as much as they could from music psychology research. Parncutt and McPherson propose to improve the situation by describing new approaches, informed by recent psychological research, to teaching music, learning music, and making music at all educational levels. more...









