Pathfinder: Jazz

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books| Periodicals, Journals & Trade Publications |Videos 

SCOPE: Jazz was first introduced in the United States at the end of the 19th century. This rhythmic, blues type of music has a decidedly black influence with the streets of New Orleans serving as a backdrop for its development. The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for the student in locating library resources on the topic of jazz. This is not intended as a comprehensive listing of all the resources available in the library, but as a selective sampling of some of the many sources available. 

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with the subject of jazz are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under the following subject headings:

Jazz Jazz History and criticism Blues (Music) History and criticism Jazz Analysis, appreciation United States Jazz, history

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF ML 102.J3 N48 2001 The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

REF ML 100.N48 2001 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 

REF ML 3507.094 2000 The Oxford Companion to Jazz

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Austerlitz, Paul. Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 2005.

Cooke, Mervyn. Jazz. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1999.

Davis, Francis. Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century. New York: Schirmer Books, 1996.
 

Early, Gerald. Miles Davis and American Culture. St. Louis, Mo: Missouri Historical Society Press, 2001. Giddins, Gary. Rhythm-a-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the 80s. New York: Da Capo Press, 2000. Giddins, Gary. Visions of Jazz: The First Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hobsbawn, E.J. Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz. New York: New Press, 1998.

Lock, Graham. Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellingston, and Anthony Braxton. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 

Rosenthal, David. Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955-1965. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Shipton, Alyn. A New History of Jazz. New York: Continuum, 2001.

Von Eschen, Penny M. Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the subject of jazz are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS 

Click the link for a list of full-text journals available through our databases in:

Music History and Criticism Popular - Jazz, rock, etc.

Open Access Journals in Music

VIDEOS 

ML 3508 .J39 2000 Jazz
ML 417 .M846 T43 1993 Thelonious Monk, American Composer
ML 419 .C645 The World According to John Coltrane

Updated 08/23/2007