These Books Are Not Quiet Bebop, Blues, Swing, and Soul: Jazz in Children’s Books

Darwin L. Henderson, Brenda Dales, Teresa Young

Abstract


Pages seem to pulse as they fill the senses with rhythm, setting, and pattern. Reflecting attitude and time, young readers and listeners are inducted into the world of . . . jazz. Music and musicians are represented in visual and textual styles that mix and balance, amplify, and absorb, like the sounds that jazz makes.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.14n1.20

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