The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920s

F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman & Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, & now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively anecdotes & inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the ''Roaring Twenties''--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, & musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper & the Gangster. 

The Jazz Age offers an insider's view into the significant developments & personalities of the jazz age, including the maturation & Americanization of the Broadway musical theater, the explosion of the arts celebrated in the Harlem Renaissance, the rise of the Classic Blues Singers, & the evolution of ragtime into stride piano. It also contains a bibliography, detailed discography, & listings of the songs of the twenties in Variety's ''Golden 100'' _ of films featuring singers & songwriters of the era.