Keep cool : the black activists who built the jazz age / Ted Vincent.

Author/creator Vincent, Ted
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; East Haven, CT : Pluto Press, 1995.
Descriptionviii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents The 'jazz age': a window of opportunity -- Lighting the fuse -- Reaching inward -- Keeping cool -- Politics and music -- The intellectuals, the Harlem renaissance jazz -- The passing of a music revolution -- This music never dies.
Abstract Traces the movement from its roots at the turn of the nineteenth century and the contribution of the all-star Army bands of the 1910s, through to its "discovery" by the white music industry in the 1920s.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-243) and index.
LCCN 95011402
ISBN0745309224
ISBN0745309216 (pbk.)