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This book examines the interplay between recorded music and social, political, and economic forces in the United States in the era of the phonograp...

Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more impor...

In Chicago Jazz, William Howland Kenny offers a wide-ranging look at jazz in the Windy City, revealing how Chicago became the major centre for jazz...

Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, N...