The History of Jazz

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This course explores the history, artists, composers and music of this great American art form. We begin in New Orleans at the turn of the century and continue through its golden age in Chicago, to the New York City dance halls of the 1930s and 1940s. The evolution advances through the bebop sound of the 1940s, the cool jazz of the 1950s, and modern jazz of the 1960s.