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      So What: The Life of Miles Davis

      John F. Szwed

      Miles Davis regularly changed styles, leaving his impact on many forms of jazz, whether he created them or simply developed the work of others, from modal jazz and be-bop, his…

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      Jazz 101: Library Edition

      John F. Szwed,Grover Gardner

      Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers through Szwed’s fluid, entertaining prose. Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, Jazz 101…

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      Jazz 101

      John F. Szwed,Grover Gardner

      Jazz 101 is a fascinating entree into the world of jazz, for the beginner, novice, or jazz enthusiast. Szwed takes listeners on a tour of the varied and nonlinear history…

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      John F. Szwed,Grover Gardner

      Jazz 101 makes jazz, with all its intricacies of artistry and vast array of forms, accessible to readers through Szwed’s fluid, entertaining prose. Infinitely readable and highly entertaining, Jazz 101…

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      The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America

      John F. Szwed

      A group of our country’s most distinguished intellectuals dismantles the alleged scientific foundations and criticizes the alarming public policy conclusions of the incendiary book, The Bell Curve. All those concerned…

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      I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues

      Clyde E. B. Bernhardt

      I Remember is a first-hand account of the world of black American music told by a man who has been part of that world for eighty years. Clyde E. B…

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      Folksongs and Their Makers

      Henry H Glassie,Edward D. Ives,John F. Szwed

      Three prominent folklorists wrote these essays in the 1970s about Dorrance Weir of upstate New York and his song Take that Night Train to Selma, Joe Scott of Maine and…

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      Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul

      Roger Abrahams

      A furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacular city. Read it and weep; read it and rejoice! -Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

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