[PDF] Austin In The Jazz Age eBook

Author : Richard Zelade
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1625854536

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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
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 1989-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195362985

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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 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 : Arnold Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195060822

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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 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 : Arnold Shaw
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 27,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN :

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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 : Chip Deffaa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252062582

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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 : Mitchell Newton-Matza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : History
ISBN :

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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 : Daniel Hardie
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1532098502

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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 : Jerome L. Rodnitzky
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890967577

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Views of main streets, fires, floods, the circus, movie theaters, sporting events, schools, ranches, shops, and restaurantscapturing the essence of the boomtown atmosphere. Clemons, the town's only professional photographer and most eccentric resident, traveled to California, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska before returning to Texas in 1919 and settling in Breckenridge. His pictures reflect the transformation of rural to urban values in the early twentieth century.

Author : Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0292722877

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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.