Ira Gitler, From Swing to Bop
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1985)
 

AN INDEX
(Version 1.1 -- July 1997)
ARRANGED by SUBJECT, 
and intended to  SUPPLEMENT
the  INDEX of  PEOPLE and TITLES 
found in the Gitler book



Ira Gitler's oral history of jazz during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s 
offers a rich source of information about the exciting transition from swing 
to bop. Because the index in the book is limited to people's names, the titles of tunes, 
and the names of bands, it is not always easy to locate information on specific topics 
quickly.  
        To make this fine oral history still more useful to scholars, musicians, and 
students, a group of undergraduate music majors in the Skidmore College 
Music Department teamed up (as a seminar project during the Spring 1996 semester) 
to produce the following supplemental index to Gitler's book. This supplemental 
index--which we publish here in full--provides a topical, or subject, index to the book.  
Interested readers can use the index to gain quick  access to information on topics 
ranging from the music business to race relations, from musical styles to clothing and 
fashion, from drug and alcohol use to the life of the jazz musician on the road, from 
venues to record labels, and much more.  
        The indexing project occupied only a few weeks of seminar energies.  We view
it definitely as a first version.  Despite all the imperfections we know it to contain and 
all the improvements which we wish we had had time to make, we offer it to the on-line
jazz community  in the hope that you will find it useful. 

You may find 
the TIPS FOR SEARCHING THE GITLER INDEX useful.  

Otherwise... 
jump right in... 
and  BEGIN SEARCHING THE INDEX.

Please send 
comments, suggestions, and corrections 
by email to:  

tdenny@skidmore.edu.