Austin In The Jazz Age

Author : Wick Griswold
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626199183
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austin in the Jazz Age written by Wick Griswold and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though renowned, Austin's contemporary music scene pales in comparison with the explosion of creative talent the city spawned during the Jazz Age. Dozens of musicians who started out in the capital city attained national and international fame--but music was just one form of artistic expression that marked that time of upheaval. World War I's death and destruction bred a vehement rejection of the status quo. In its place, an enthusiastic adherence to life lived without question or consequence took root. The sentiment found fertile soil in Austin, with the University of Texas at the epicenter. Students indulged in the debauchery that typified the era, scandalizing Austin and Texas at large as they introduced a freewheeling, individualistic attitude that now defines the city. Join author Richard Zelade in a raucous investigation of the day and its most outstanding and outlandish characters.

Author : Richard Zelade
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625854536
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austin in the Jazz Age written by Richard Zelade and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though renowned, Austin's contemporary music scene pales in comparison with the explosion of creative talent the city spawned during the Jazz Age. Dozens of musicians who started out in the capital city attained national and international fame--but music was just one form of artistic expression that marked that time of upheaval. World War I's death and destruction bred a vehement rejection of the status quo. In its place, an enthusiastic adherence to life lived without question or consequence took root. The sentiment found fertile soil in Austin, with the University of Texas at the epicenter. Students indulged in the debauchery that typified the era, scandalizing Austin and Texas at large as they introduced a freewheeling, individualistic attitude that now defines the city. Join author Richard Zelade in a raucous investigation of the day and its most outstanding and outlandish characters.

Author : Arnold Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195362985
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Age written by Arnold Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-30 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 The Jazz Age. Spicing 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. The jazz age set the sound of popular music into the 1950s. It included the flowering of improvised music by such artists as Armstrong, Bix Benderbecke, and Duke Ellington; the maturation and Americanization of the Broadway musical theatre; the explosion of the arts celebrated in the Harlem Renaissance; the rise of the classical blues singers starting with Mamie Smith and climaxing with Bessie Smith; the evolution of ragtime into stride piano; the spread of "speakeasy" night life and the emergence of the Cabaret singers; the musical creativity of a whole range of composers and songwriters including Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Youmans, Rodgers and Hart, and Cole Porter, whom Shaw calls Song Laureate of the Roaring 20s. Here is a lively account of all these significant developments and personalities. A bibliography, detailed discography, and two informative lists--songs of the 20s in Variety's Golden 100 and films featuring singers and songwriters of the era--round out the book.

Author : Mitchell Newton-Matza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598840347
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Age written by Mitchell Newton-Matza and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-07-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays encompassing a wide variety of topics, people, and events that embodied the Jazz Age, both familiar and obscure. This volume in ABC-CLIO's social history series, People and Perspectives, looks at one of the most vibrant eras in U.S. history, a decade when American life was utterly transformed, often veering from freewheeling to fearful, from liberated to repressed. What did it mean to live through the Jazz Age? To answer this and other important questions, the volume broadens the spotlight from famous figures to cover everyday citizens whose lives were impacted by the times, including women and children, African Americans, rural Americans, immigrants, artists, and more. Chapters explore a wide range of topics beyond the music that came to symbolize the era, such as marriage, religion, consumerism, art and literature, fashion, the workplace, and more—the full cultural landscape of an extraordinary, if short-lived, moment in the life of a nation.

Author : Chip Deffaa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062582
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Jazz Age written by Chip Deffaa and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features interviews of Sam Wooding, Benny Waters, Joe Tarto, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Freddie Moore, and Jabbo Smith, and Bix Beiderbecke's letters to his family.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 : 9780783555096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Age written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the history of the 1920s from an American perspective.

Author : Daniel Hardie
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532098502
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz and the Jazz Age written by Daniel Hardie and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jazz Music flourished between 1920 and 1930 - the Roaring Twenties, becoming the most acceptable form of popular music, so much so that the decade was named the Jazz Age. But what does the word jazz mean and where did it come from? In his latest work Jazz and the Jazz Age jazz historian Daniel Hardie traces the beginnings of jazz from roots in New Orleans to its appearance in Chicago in 1915 to its domination of popular music in the 1920’s and the wild extravagance of prohibition era Chicago and beyond.

Author : Jane Simon Ammeson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626194785
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana: written by Jane Simon Ammeson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational Diamond murder was a Roaring Twenties story of roadhouse floozies, illegal booze, orphaned children, trust funds and legal acrobatics. Nettie Herskovitz-- wealthy and widowed-- at first resisted the advances of Harry Diamond, a dashing young bootlegger a decade and a half her junior. After the two were married with an infant daughter, Diamond became disinterested in a domestic life. He shot Nettie on Valentines Day 1923 while riding in their Hudson sedan. He tried to pin the crime on the fleeing chauffeur, but Nettie lived long enough to identify her attacker to police and change her will.

Author : Arnold Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195060822
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jazz Age written by Arnold Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 The Jazz Age. Spicing 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.

Author : Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292722877
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic written by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is both an anthology of writing by participants of the Austin Project and a sourcebook for those who would like to use creative writing and performance to energize their artistic, scholarly, and activist practices.