Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product
of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of …

The Culture of Jazz is a collection of essays that view jazz from an anthropological
perspective. It focuses on aspects of jazz culture and the ways in which jazz scrutinizes the …

The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz
outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars …

This history of jazz, spanning the twentieth century, is the first to place it within the broad
context of American culture. Burton Peretti argues persuasively that this distinctive American …

A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural
exploitation The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most …

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli cowrote Free Jazz/Black
Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains …

I do not use the term" jazz," as I do not use such terms as Negro, Oriental, or Hispanic.
Oppressed peoples suffer when their history, identity, and culture are defined,(mis) …

Jazz is one of the most influential American art forms of our times. It shapes our ideas about
musical virtuosity, human action and new forms of social expression. In Going for Jazz …

After twenty years in the marginal wilderness, jazz is gearing up to slip out of its ghetto
again. While it's still true that only 3—4 percent of recording consumers pick up the CDs in …

Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz
illustrates this perhaps better than any other style in this rich tradition, yet its cultural heritage …