Early Jazz I - The Roots

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Bessie
Bessie 4.07 avg rating — 199 ratings
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A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe
A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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African Music: A People's Art
African Music: A People's Art 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings
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King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era 4.10 avg rating — 94 ratings
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They All Played Ragtime
They All Played Ragtime 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Jazz From The Beginning
Jazz From The Beginning 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms
African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms 4.27 avg rating — 131 ratings
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Jazz in America: Who's Listening? (Research Division Report : National Endowment for the Arts, No 31)
Jazz in America: Who's Listening? (Research Division Report : National Endowment for the Arts, No 31) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Music of James Scott
The Music of James Scott it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular Culture
Doo-dah!: Stephen Foster And The Rise Of American Popular Culture 3.66 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture
Steppin' Out: New York Nightlife and the Transformation of American Culture 3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
by: Ted Gioia
4.30 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class
by: Eric Lott
4.14 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend 3.76 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues 4.02 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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This Is Ragtime
This Is Ragtime 3.90 avg rating — 21 ratings