The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

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The Cambridge Companion to Jazz is written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521663881 (ISBN 10) and 9780521663885 (ISBN 13).

The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.