Jump for Joy: Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America

If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded Jumping at the Woodside, and suddenly Jump Blues seemed to be everywhere. Along with the bouncy beat came the high-flying aerials of the Lindy Hop and the basketball games, held in nightclubs, became faster and higher. Black college basketball began to include jump shots. Duke Ellington and a cast of hundreds produced ...

By Gena Caponi-Tabery
Hardcover: 260 pages
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press (July 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1558496629
ISBN-13: 978-1558496620
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 15995448
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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