Representing jazz / edited by Krin Gabbard.
Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists, filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and...
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1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : writing the other history / Krin Gabbard
- Jammin' the blues, or the sight of jazz, 1944 / Arthur Knight
- Improvising and mythmaking in Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse" / Leland H. Chambers
- Fabulating jazz / Frederick Garber
- Signifyin(g) the phallus : Mo' better blues and representations of the jazz trumpet / Krin Gabbard
- Jazz autobiography : theory, practice, politics / Christopher Harlos
- Uptown folk : blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky / James Naremore
- Doubling, music, and race in Cabin in the sky / Adam Knee
- Divine frivolity : Hollywood representations of the Lindy Hop, 1937-1942 / Robert P. Crease
- Keeping the spirit alive : the jazz dance testament of Mura Dehn / Karen Backstein
- Jazz and the New York School / Mona Hadler
- The tenor's vehicle : reading Way out West / Michael Jarrett
- Purple passages of fiestas in blue? Notes toward an aesthetic of vocalese / Barry Keith Grant.