This site offers the first chapter of Ted Gioia's book, "The History of Jazz." This chapter focuses on the prehistory of jazz, including the Africanization of American music, country blues and classic blues, and Scott Joplin and Ragtime.

Concepts

jazz music, ragtime

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Additional Tags

classic blues, country blues, history of jazz, jazz, scott joplin, washington post, africanization of american music

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)