The Ancestry of Jazz: A Musical Family History

 
                                
by Daniel Hardie
published by iUniverse
ISBN: 0-595-30739-6.

  A fascinating search for the true ancestors of America’s own music. Did Jazz come from the music  of jungle drums  or  was the backwoods country reel its actual ancestor? The answer may surprise you. 




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What is it about?

In 1917 the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recordings. They also announced that they had invented this new music. However since the appearance of Buddy Bolden’s band in 1897 jazz had regularly  been performed in New Orleans dance halls. But did it just appear at that time? Jazz historians have sometimes suggested that it sprang from the memories of wild slave dancing performances in the celebrated Place Congo in Downtown New Orleans. Others have claimed that it was invented by Creole Musicians, and still others that it was invented by white  bands of street musicians.
In The Ancestry of  Jazz: A Musical Family History Daniel Hardie traces  the genealogy of New Orleans jazz. Exploring  the musical families  introduced to the first English, French and Spanish colonies, and their descendants, the author  reveals the connections between them, and  the musical sources from which the musical characteristics  of Early Jazz were derived. This analysis  also explores how  the family of jazz  and its many relatives  influenced the course of American Popular Music for much of the twentieth century.

• How important was  the  music of the first English colonies?
• Where did the music of the frontier come from?
• When did the Irish Jig meet the African banjo?
• When did  commercial Popular Music arrive ?
• Are Country Music and the Blues brothers under the skin?
• When  did Afro-Latin  Music  enter the family ?
• What was the influence of Brass band Music?
• Were Jazz and Ragtime cousins?
• Who was swinging in the Holy Roller Church?
These and many other questions are explored in The Ancestry Of Jazz: A Musical Family History
 


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Chapter Headings include:
 

1. Genealogy and Jazz History
2. American Popular Music : The Parent Stock
3. The Scotch-Irish Legacy
4. The Slave Heritage
5. Ante Bellum Sacred Music
6. Emerging Popular Music 1800/1865
7. The Brass Bands
8. The Afro-Latin Strain
9. Popular Music after the Civil War
10. The Folk Underground
11. Ragtime
12. The Origin of the Blues
13. Music in New Orleans Before the Birth of Jazz
14. The Birth of New Orleans Jazz
15. Meet the Ancestors

Appendix
Bibliography
Index
 

  About the Author:
This book is the third in a trilogy of works by the author  about the birth of jazz. In The Loudest Trumpet: Buddy Bolden and the Early History of Jazz Daniel Hardie told the story of the music of Buddy Bolden father of New Orleans jazz, and in  Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Stylehe described the beginnings of the new music and its growth in the thirty years before the first recordings appeared.
He is a former jazz clarinettist and lover of early jazz recordings. He is also a Maritime historian  and painter who has published a number of works on Australian Maritime History and has  exhibited  his boat paintings in a number of Australian cities. He is a Member of the Royal Australian Historical Society and the Society of Australian Genealogists. He is married and lives in Sydney with his wife and has two daughters.
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