A Brief History of Jazz

Author: Lucien Malson (France)
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: We love jazz because it possesses a quality that the Western cultural aesthetics have been eagerly anticipating; conversely, this aesthetics has also contributed to the Western culture's liberation from itself. This book is the first comprehensive popular reading in China that introduces the history of jazz music. The author adopts a broad and unique historical perspective, narrating the process of jazz's emergence and development within the tumultuous backdrop of its era, covering nearly a century from its origins to the 1990s. It presents a comprehensive and focused "growth history" and "evolution history" of this unique musical form. The breadth of information it covers and the number of figures it involves are sufficient to free readers from the constraints of time, allowing them to step into this ancient yet ever-renewing art with a century of history and appreciate its profound and extensive essence.