Description: PrefaceAcknowledgmentsFirst Accounts1. Sidney Bechet's Musical Philosophy2. "Whence Comes Jass?"3. The Location of "Jass"4. A "Serious" Musician Takes Jazz Seriously5. "A Negro Explains 'Jazz'"6. "Jazzing Away Prejudice"7. The "Inventor of Jazz"The Twenties8. Jazzing Around the Globe9. "Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?"10. Jazz and African Music11. The Man Who Made a Lady Out of Jazz (Paul Whiteman)12. "The Jazz Problem"13. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"14. A Black Journalist Criticizes Jazz15. "The Caucasian Storms Harlem"16. The Appeal of Jazz ExplainedThe Thirties17. What Is Swing?18. Looking Back at "The Jazz Age"19. Don Redman: Portrait of a Bandleader20. Defining "Hot Jazz"21. An Experience in Jazz History22. On the Road with Count Basie23. Jazz at Carnegie Hall24. Duke Ellington Explains Swing25. Jazz and Gender During the War YearsThe Forties26. "Red Music"27. "From Somewhere in France"28. Johnny Otis Remembers Lester Young29. "A People's Music"30. "Bop is Nowhere"31. "The Cult of Bebop"32. "The Golden Age, Time Past"33. The Professional Dance Musician and His AudienceThe Fifties34. Jazz in the Classroom35. A Jazz "Masterpiece"36. "Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation"37. "Beneath the Underdog"38. Psychoanalyzing Jazz39. An Appeal to the Vatican40. America's "Secret Sonic Weapon"41. "The White Negro"42. Louis Armstrong on Music and PoliticsThe Sixties43. Critical Reception of Free Jazz44. "Jazz and the White Critic"45. A Jazz Summit MeetingThe Seventies46. Oral Culture and Musical Tradition47. Jazz as a Progressive Social Force48. Beyond Categories49. The Musician's Heroic Craft50. Creative Muisc and the AACMThe Eighties51. "America's Classical Music"52. "A Rare National Treasure"53. The Neoclassical Agenda54. Soul, Craft, and the Cultural Hierarchy55. "'It Jus' Be's Dat Way Sometime': The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues"56. Miles Davis Speaks His Mind57. A Music of Survival and CelebrationThe Nineties58. Who Listens to Jazz?59. Free Jazz Revisited60. Ring Shout, Signifyin(g), and Jazz Analysis61. Ferociously Harmonizing with Reality62. Constructing the Jazz TraditionEditing NotesSelect BibliographyIndex

Please Wait