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9780300214529 | Yale Univ Pr, May 24, 2016, cover price $30.00
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9780465060894 | Basic Books, May 31, 2016, cover price $24.99
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9780199357574 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 10, 2015, cover price $29.95
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9780253007476 | 2 exp rev edition (Indiana Univ Pr, February 8, 2013), cover price $25.00
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9780199937394 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 6, 2012, cover price $39.95
9780199769148 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 3, 2012, cover price $99.00
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9780199769155 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 3, 2012, cover price $29.95
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9780195090819 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 24, 1997, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself
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9780195399707 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 9, 2011), cover price $19.95
9780195126532 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 17, 1998), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A panoramic history of the genre brings to life the diverse places in which jazz evolved, traces the origins of its various styles, and offers commentary on the music itself
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9781439503201 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $28.99 | About this edition: Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world and it was born in one of the most colorful and varied cities, New Orleans.
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9780393062588 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 19, 2008, cover price $27.95
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9780393337501 | W W Norton & Co Inc, November 2, 2009, cover price $18.95
Product Description: It's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style. After all, cool is style. Isn't it? And it may be harder to imagine a world where people no longer aspire to coolness. In this intriguing cultural history, nationally acclaimed author Ted Gioia shows why cool is not a timeless concept and how it has begun to lose meaning and fade into history...read more
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9781933108315, titled "The Birth (And Death) of the Cool" | Speck Pr, November 1, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: It's hard to imagine that "the cool" could ever go out of style.
Product Description: All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer’s labors, calmed the herder’s flock, and set in motion the spinner’s wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail store; the radio keeps the trucker going on the long-distance haul...read more
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9780822337263 | Duke Univ Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work.
Product Description: While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions. In the West, for almost two millennia, the roles of the healer and the musician have been strictly separated...read more
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9780822337027 | Duke Univ Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: While the first healers were musicians who relied on rhythm and song to help cure the sick, over time Western thinkers and doctors lost touch with these traditions.
Product Description: Debido a que el jazz es un mundo de vastos horizontes, son pocos quienes lo exploran con profundidad. Ted Gioia lleva a cabo una extensa lección musical al tiempo que cocina un suculento banquete de sugerencias para el interesado y propone un reto que ningún erudito en el tema puede eludir...read more
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9789681666460 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, June 30, 2002, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: Debido a que el jazz es un mundo de vastos horizontes, son pocos quienes lo exploran con profundidad.
Discusses the unique human quality of jazz that sets it apart from other music, looks at jazz history, and examines jazz's reliance on improvisation
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9780735103733 | Replica Books, July 1, 2001, cover price $27.45 | About this edition: Discusses the unique human quality of jazz that sets it apart from other music, looks at jazz history, and examines jazz's reliance on improvisation
9780195053432 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $25.00 | also contains Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age | About this edition: Discusses the unique human quality of jazz that sets it apart from other music, looks at jazz history, and examines jazz's reliance on improvisation
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9780195063288 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 19, 1990), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Taking a wide-ranging approach rare in jazz criticism, Ted Gioia's brilliant volume draws upon fields as disparate as literary criticism, art history, sociology, and aesthetic philosophy in order to place jazz within the turbulent cultural environment of the twentieth century.
Traces the history of California jazz in the fifties, offers profiles of the leading west coast musicians, and looks at their influence on modern jazz
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9780195063103, titled "West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960" | Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of California jazz in the fifties, offers profiles of the leading west coast musicians, and looks at their influence on modern jazz
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9780520217294, titled "West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960" | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $31.95
9780195089165 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1994), cover price $15.95 | also contains Women's Health Issues Across the Lifecycle | About this edition: Over the last half century, New York's preeminence in the world of jazz has been challenged only once--during the 1950s--when California emerged with a splash on the jazz scene.
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