Jazz. Part 1, Gumbo / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

The story of jazz begins in New Orleans, 19th-century America's most cosmopolitan city. Here, in the 1890s, African-American artists created a new music out of ragtime syncopations, Caribbean rhythms, marching band instrumentation, and the soulful feeling of the blues. This program introduces the pi...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Other Authors: Burns, Ken, 1953-
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], ©2000.
Series:Films on Demand.
Subjects:
African Americans > History.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Jazz > History and criticism.
Music > 20th century > History and criticism.
Musical form.
Style, Musical.
United States > History > 1901-1953.
United States > Politics and government > 1901-1953.
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Video recording.
Genre:
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Video recording.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (110 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Variant Title:
Gumbo
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • Improvised Art (1:49)
  • America's Music (2:17)
  • Jazz Celebrates Life (0:47)
  • Jazz Pioneers (2:52)
  • Gumbo (2:04)
  • Congo Square (1:57)
  • Creoles of Color (0:48)
  • New Orleans - One Vast Waltzing and Gallopating Hall (2:27)
  • Complexity of Black/White Relations in Music (3:31)
  • Jim Crow (2:25)
  • The Roux - Ragtime (2:18)
  • The Roux - Blues (2:22)
  • Sacred Blues - Letting the Soul Sing (3:40)
  • Deepening the Message of the Blues (1:49)
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (2:13)
  • Jazz Blossoms into Authentic Art (3:43)
  • The Big Noise (3:37)
  • Buddy Bolden at the Funky Butt Dance Hall (3:00)
  • Buddy Bolden Storyville Years (2:57)
  • Jellyroll Morton (3:39)
  • Jellyroll Morton - Self-Proclaimed Inventor of Jazz (4:25)
  • Jass to Jazz (2:27)
  • Sidney Bechet - The Poet of New Orleans Music (3:57)
  • Dawn of the Recording Industry (1:06)
  • The Soul of the Negro (3:32)
  • James Reese Europe (2:07)
  • Paving the Way for New Orleans Music (2:08)
  • The "Creators" of Jazz (2:58)
  • Original Dixieland Jazz Band (3:20)
  • Jazz Begins to Spread (2:33)
  • Nick LaRocca - (3:24)
  • Louis Armstrong (1:03)
  • Credits: Gumbo: Ken Burns' Jazz, Part 1 (2:46)
  • The First Frame (2:21)
  • Getting it Right (5:32)
  • The Voice of Jazz (2:25)
  • The Music (5:50)