Swing It!: An Annotated History of Jive - Softcover

Milkowski, Bill

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9780823076710: Swing It!: An Annotated History of Jive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823076717 ISBN 13: 9780823076710

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 2001

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A guide to jive describes its history and notable performers.

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Too "jazzy" for rock critics, too "silly" for jazz critics, the jovial gentlemen and women of jive are enthusiastically saluted in this history of jive. Jive, often known as "jump" or "swing", has had a language, a rhythm and a style all its own - lively, celebratory, and quintessentially American. This volume follows the music's rich, raucous cultural heritage from the Georgia South Sea troubadours to the pioneers (Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Cab Calloway), and from the golden era (Louis Jordan, Slim Gaillard and Leo "Scat" Watson) to the white connection (Mezz Mezzrow, Dan Hicks and Joe Jackson). It also covers the women jivesters (Betty Boop, Annie Ross and Rickie Lee Jones) and the retro swingers (Brian Setzer, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and Cherry Poppin' Daddies), as well as the Broadway musical "Five Guys Named Moe" in 1994 and "Swing". A discography is included.

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