Hendler Prehistory of Jazz

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-99012-981-4
Verlag: Hollitzer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Beiträge zur Jazzforschung / Studies in Jazz Research

This publication follows the history of discoveries pertaining to Portuguese travel to the New World, from the 15th century to the 1920s, with an emphasis on the events leading to the development of jazz. The diversity of cultural influences from all over the world have made the United States a treasury of improvised music. Hendler portrays the development of American music scenes in centuries past, reporting on aspects such as the background of the slave trade, particularly in the Antilles, the music of European immigrant families, and the sounds of the (Spanish-controlled) Mississippi. He sketches the musical relationships between Cuba and the United States and their influence on American popular music around 1900. The highly fashionable march music leaves its mark, as do ragtime and spirituals, all blending to form an impressive repertoire of improvised music. The reader is inspired by the richness of forms and styles and the power of the artistic performances in the prehistory of jazz.

Maximilian Hendler (* 1939) received his doctorate in Byzantine and Slavic studies and Indo-European languages and was a member of the faculty of the University's Institute for Slavic Studies until 2002. Interested in music from all over the world, Alfons Dauer drew Hendler further into the world of jazz and influenced the focus of his research, which is primarily on the development of jazz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendler, Maximilian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

I. THE SLAVE TRADE

Preconditions
Slaveholder Societies
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Fate of Slaves in America
The Slave-Breeding Industry
Free African Americans
The Musical Consequences of the Slave Trade

II. PREHISTORY OF JAZZ

Minstrelsy
Coon Songs
Two Show-Business Personalities
Spirituals and Gospel Songs
Early Documents
Early Recordings
Race Records
Fieldwork
Cakewalk
March, Two-Step, Polka, or Cakewalk
Strains
Ragtime
Roots of Ragtime: The Quadrille
Roots of Ragtime: Marches
Roots of Ragtime: The Antilles
Roots of Ragtime: British Popular Song
A Chronology of Ragtime
1900–1917
Digression: "Tiger Rag"
1918–1923
Digression: "Bugle Call Rag"
1924–1930s
Musical Verdict
The Blues
Early Documents
"Classic" Blues
Race Records

III. HEADING TOWARDS JAZZ

Jazz and Accommodationism

IV. CONCLUSION

Literature
Discography
Song Titles
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maximilian Hendler (* 1939) received his doctorate in Byzantine and Slavic studies and Indo-European languages and was a member of the faculty of the University's Institute for Slavic Studies until 2002. Interested in music from all over the world, Alfons Dauer drew Hendler further into the world of jazz and influenced the focus of his research, which is primarily on the development of jazz.