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"""Kenney, both a jazz musician and an associate professor at Kent State University, employs all his diverse expertise in creating this highly detailed study of a crucial chapter in the story of America's homegrown music. Kenney's short book is a serious and valuable work of scholarship, drawing heavily upon source material to describe and explain social and historical aspects of this period.""--Los Angeles Daily News ""Concise and informative...traces the social and economic emergence of jazz in Chicago from its inception through the Depression, with particular emphasis on the 1920s, when Chicago became a major jazz center.""--Publishers Weekly ""Kenney's scholarship should increase his cultural history's appeal for readers who aren't professional historians as well as for those who aren't amateur jazz scholars....Always authentic.""--Booklist ""An entertaining and well-documented account of Chicago jazz in the Roaring 20s....Kenney's talent for vivid description makes the era come alive.""--Library Journal ""Kenney's meticulously researched and carefully thought through book is a paradigm of what jazz scholarship ought to be. Jazz fans and scholars alike will find here a whole new view of this formative early period.""--James Lincoln Collier, author of Benny Goodman and the Swing Era, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong ""William Howland Kenney's detailed, superbly written investigation of the 1920s Chicago jazz scene is a model historical study of a community bound together by a cultural practice....The musicians are presented here with a new clarity, and Kenney's meticulous research shows how the Chicago jazz heyday was molded, and soon swept away, by larger historical trends. This finely-tuned critical exploration is a valuable contribution to the cultural history of jazz and the 1920s.""--Burton W. Peretti, author of The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America ""A concise and persuasive interpretation of the intersections of race, demographic shifts, urban culture and music that made Chicago, during the 1920s, a carefully-selected anthology of well-known and fugitive pieces, offers multiple perspectives on an elusive, sardonic and mocking genius who transcended the constraints of white racism and paternalism. Mark Tucker, an authority on Ellington's early life, provides succinct introductions to this and another hundred 'Selections' in a compilation which is both a joy to read and an indispensable addition to American Studies, Ellingtonia, and jazz criticism.""--John White, University of Hull"

CHICAGO JAZZ is a good example of the new historical writing in the field. This is a well written and thoroughly researched book, and ought to appeal to anyone interested in the general history of jazz and popular music. * Jim Burns, Beat Scene , No. 23 * a meticulously researched and minutely detailed work of jazz scholarship that impressively enhances our understanding of how jazz developed, and the mileu in which it prospered. Aficionados will find this fascinating. * Trevor Hodgett, Irish News * William Howland Kenney ... writes vividly and effectively ... Chicago Jazz remains the definitive account for the foreseeable future * Times Literary Supplement *

""Kenney, both a jazz musician and an associate professor at Kent State University, employs all his diverse expertise in creating this highly detailed study of a crucial chapter in the story of America's homegrown music. Kenney's short book is a serious and valuable work of scholarship, drawing heavily upon source material to describe and explain social and historical aspects of this period.""--Los Angeles Daily News ""Concise and informative...traces the social and economic emergence of jazz in Chicago from its inception through the Depression, with particular emphasis on the 1920s, when Chicago became a major jazz center.""--Publishers Weekly ""Kenney's scholarship should increase his cultural history's appeal for readers who aren't professional historians as well as for those who aren't amateur jazz scholars....Always authentic.""--Booklist ""An entertaining and well-documented account of Chicago jazz in the Roaring 20s....Kenney's talent for vivid description makes the era come alive.""--Library Journal ""Kenney's meticulously researched and carefully thought through book is a paradigm of what jazz scholarship ought to be. Jazz fans and scholars alike will find here a whole new view of this formative early period.""--James Lincoln Collier, author of Benny Goodman and the Swing Era, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong ""William Howland Kenney's detailed, superbly written investigation of the 1920s Chicago jazz scene is a model historical study of a community bound together by a cultural practice....The musicians are presented here with a new clarity, and Kenney's meticulous research shows how the Chicago jazz heyday was molded, and soon swept away, by larger historical trends. This finely-tuned critical exploration is a valuable contribution to the cultural history of jazz and the 1920s.""--Burton W. Peretti, author of The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America ""A concise and persuasive interpretation of the intersections of race, demographic shifts, urban culture and music that made Chicago, during the 1920s, a carefully-selected anthology of well-known and fugitive pieces, offers multiple perspectives on an elusive, sardonic and mocking genius who transcended the constraints of white racism and paternalism. Mark Tucker, an authority on Ellington's early life, provides succinct introductions to this and another hundred 'Selections' in a compilation which is both a joy to read and an indispensable addition to American Studies, Ellingtonia, and jazz criticism.""--John White, University of Hull

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William Howland Kenney is a jazz clarinetist and Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Kent State University. He is the coeditor with Scott Deveaux of The Music of James Scott.

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