The culture of jazz jazz as critical culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Salamone, Frank A.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Lanham : University Press of America, ©2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • The culture of jazz and jazz as critical culture
  • Music and anthropology
  • Teaching the culture of jazz
  • Africa as a metaphor of authenticity in jazz
  • The spread of American music to the international scene
  • Jazz and its impact on European classical music
  • Creole performance and the mass
  • Jazz in Rochester in the context of the wider scene
  • Stereotype and reality : social and cultural characteristics of members of the Down Beat hall of fame
  • Laughin' Louie : an analysis of Louis Armstrong's record and its relationship to African-American musical humor
  • Dizzy, humor, and subversion of accepted reality
  • From the Cotton Club to the cathedral
  • Boppers and moldy figs : a tale of two cultures
  • The force primeval : the image of jazz in American literature
  • Puttin' it on
  • Did they make the scene or did the scene make them? : expatriate jazz musicians in Europe
  • Close enough for jazz : humor and jazz reality
  • He sang away my blues
  • Music and emotion
  • The good die young : the tragedy of the jazz life
  • Conclusion.