At the height of the Cold War, the US State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its
battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its …

This 2002 book presents a unique sociological vision of the evolution of jazz in the twentieth
century. Analysing organizational structures and competing discourses in American music …

This study examines how early writers of jazz criticism (such as Gilbert Seldes and Carl Van
Vechten) and literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes)--as well as jazz …

Injazz, the term" big ears" refers to the ability to hear and make meaning out of complex
music. One needs" big ears" to make sense of improvisatory negotiations of tricky changes …

The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s
and'40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though …

From the Preface by Ted Gioia: All of these musicians fought their way back over the next
decade, and their success in re-establishing themselves as important artists was perhaps …

BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR JAZZ WAS PRIMARILY A MUSIC OF THE southern
Negro, and especially of the Negro in and around New Orleans. It was, in the southerner's …

Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans's history, uncovering a web of racial
interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art …

New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city's
jazz scene is more important now than ever before. Blowin'the Blues Away examines how …

Inside British Jazz explores specific historical moments in British jazz history and places
special emphasis upon issues of race, nation and class. Topics covered include the …