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Marshall Winslow Stearns (October 18, 1908 - December 18, 1966) was an American jazz critic and musicologist. He was the founder of the Institute of Jazz Studies.〔 ==Biography== He was born on October 18, 1908 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Edith and Harry N. Stearns. His father was a Harvard University graduate and an attorney.〔 Stearns played drums in his teens, and attended Harvard University both for undergraduate and for law school (1929?-1934). Following this he studied medieval English at Yale University, where he took his Ph.D. in 1942. Stearns taught English at several U.S. colleges, and during this time wrote often about jazz music for magazines such as ''Variety'', ''Saturday Review'', ''Down Beat'', ''Record Changer'', ''Esquire'', ''Harper's'', ''Life'', and ''Musical America''. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1950, and used the proceeds to finish his 1956 work ''The Story of Jazz'',〔''The Story of Jazz'' Marshall Stearns. Oxford University Press, 1956〕 which became a widely used text, as well as a popular introduction to jazz.〔''The Story of Jazz'', New York: New American Library/Mentor books, 1958〕 He began teaching jazz at New York University in 1950 and then at Hunter College from 1951. In 1952, he founded the Institute of Jazz Studies, which he directed. Later in the 1950s, he was a consultant to the United States State Department, and accompanied Dizzy Gillespie on a tour of the Middle East in 1956 sponsored by the office. He taught at the New School for Social Research (1954–56) and the School of Jazz in Lenox, Massachusetts. He died on December 18, 1966 in Key West, Florida. He and his second wife, Jean, wrote a second book, ''Jazz Dance'',〔Marshall Winslow Stearns, Jean Stearns, ''Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance'', Da Capo Press, 1968, ISBN 0306805537〕 which was published posthumously in 1968. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marshall Stearns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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