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ATS2333 Jazz History library guide
A selection of sources for the study of ATS2333 Jazz History which are all available Online.
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History by Scott DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz--the birth of bebop--and shows how our contemporary ideas of this uniquely American art form flow from that pivotal moment. At the same time, he provides an extraordinary view of the United States in the decades just prior to the civil rights movement.
The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates by 
Rhythm-a-Ning: jazz tradition and innovation in the '80s by 
Jazz Matters: sound, place, and time since bebop by 
Blues People: Negro Music in White America by 
The Imperfect Art: Reflections on Jazz and Modern Culture by You can search beyond the Library 'Search' using the powerful search interface on library databases.
For an extensive list of databases for finding Jazz history sources try the music library guide.
The library has guides to help evaluate scholarly sources. For example: Is this a scholarly source?
There are further guides here: Research and Learning Online
Find these journal articles on Library Search:
Givan, Benjamin. 2014. 'Gunther Schuller and the Challenge of Sonny Rollins: Stylistic Context, Intentionality, and Jazz Analysis', Journal of the American Musicological Society, 67(1): 167-237.
Larson, Steve. 1998. 'Schenkerian Analysis of Modern Jazz: Questions About Method', Music Theory Spectrum, 20(2):209-241
Sawyer, Keith. 1992. 'Improvisational creativity: An analysis of jazz performance', Creativity Research Journal, 5(3):253-263.
Call numbers for jazz history to assist browsing
780.92 Biographies include Jazz musicians
781.65 General Jazz histories
781.6509 Jazz history and criticism
781.65094 Jazz by country
781.650973 - 781.6509794 Jazz in USA
781.650994 - Australian Jazz
781.65117 Multiple Jazz topics
785.42 Jazz groups/ensembles (another sequence of books from general history to particular topics)
Scores
S781.65 Fake books
S781.65136 Jazz instruction and study
S786.2165193 Piano jazz methods (Oscar Peterson, Steve Sedergreen, Fats Waller etc.)
In addition to the general introductions on this page, search for Matthew Butterfield's article "Jazz" in Oxford Bibliographies. The article gives a good overview of reference works, books, discographies and journals.
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz by 
Jazz/Not Jazz by 
Australian Jazz on Records, 1925-1980 by 
Jazz: The Australian Accent by 
The Permanent Underground: Australian Contemporary Jazz in the New Millennium by 
Playing Ad Lib: Improvisatory Music in Australia 1836-1970 by 
The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity by 
Antipodean Riffs by The Australian Jazz Museum, incorporating the Victorian Jazz Archive, is located in Wantirna
Open Tuesday and Friday, from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm.
Experimentation in Improvised Jazz by Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, static definition. The worldwide trend for jazz to be marginalized by the mainstream music industry, as well as conservatoriums and schools of music, runs the risk of stifling the innovative and challenging aspects of its creativity. The authors argue that to remain relevant, jazz needs to be dynamic, proactively experimental, and consciously facilitate new ideas to be made accessible to an audience broader than the innovators themselves.¿Experimentation in Improvised Jazz explores key elements of experimental jazz music in order to discern ways in which the genre is developing.¿ The book begins with an overview of where, when and how new ideas in free and improvised jazz have been created and added to the canon, developing the genre beyond its initial roots. It moves on to consider how and why musicians create free and improvised jazz; the decisions they make while playing. What are they responding to? What are they depending on? What are they thinking? The authors analyse and synthesise the creation of free jazz by correlating the latest research to the reflections provided by some of the world¿s greatest jazz innovators for this project. Finally, the book examines how we respond to free and improvised jazz: artistically, critically and personally. Free jazz is, the book argues, an environment that develops through experimentation with new ideas.
Thinking in Jazz: The Infinite Art of Improvisation by 
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction by 
The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue by 
A Power Stronger than itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by 
The Imperfect Art by 
