Arnold Shaw, Author Oxford University Press, USA $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-19-503891-0
According to popular music historian Shaw (Honkers and Shouters, the jazz age began in 1917, with the appearance at Reisenweber's in New York of the all-white Original Dixieland Jazz Band and their first recordings of ""the new music.'' The years...
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Arnold Shaw, Author Schirmer G Books $21.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-02-872310-5
Affirming that ""the black-white fusion remains the ineluctable source of the appeal and impact of our popular music,'' Shaw, a composer who also writes on the subject of music, describes the development of that trend primarily from the black...
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Arnold Shaw, Author, Bill Willard, Editor Oxford University Press, USA $35 (256p) ISBN 978-0-19-505307-4
The history of popular music in the 1930s, a decade that boasted such eminent figures as Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rogers and Hart, Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen, is a story worth reading--but not as presented here. Shaw, who died in 1989, was an...
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