Jazz: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jazz, credited to R. P. Jones, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Jazz by R. P. Jones. Read in English by Ben Tucker Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” emerged. This descriptive and analytical narrative explores the growth and the changes in direction of jazz music, and the effect on it of religious and economic as well as artistic and individual influences. - Summary by R. P. Jones, in Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jazz
• Author credits: R. P. Jones
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 2:21:05

Catalogue topics

• jazz
• blues
• spirituals
• dixieland
• ragtime
• bop

Track guide

1. 01 - I. Pre-History — 14:57
2. 02 - II. New Orleans — 7:56
3. 03 - III. Early Jazz in New Orleans — 9:18
4. 04 - IV. The Spread of Jazz — 8:58
5. 05 - V. The Jazz Age: White — 7:09
6. 06 - VI. The Jazz Age: Negro — 20:21
7. 07 - VII. The Depression and Kansas City — 11:54
8. 08 - VIII. Swing — 14:16
9. 09 - IX. The Revival — 9:36
10. 10 - X. Bop — 14:04
11. 11 - XI. Cool, Commercial and Collected — 18:02
12. 12 - XII. Conclusion — 4:34

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