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 …

The effect of jazz upon American culture and the American character has been all-pervasive.
This superlative history is the first and the most renowned systematic outline of the evolution …

Country music's debt to African American music has long been recognized. Black musicians
have helped to shape the styles of many of the most important performers in the country …

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 …

In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the" discovery" of black music by white elites in
the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to …

he first full decade of radio broadcasting in the United States coincided with the fabled" Jazz
Age" or" Roaring Twenties," a period of significant cultural upheaval on both sides of the …

Born of African rhythms, the spiritual" call and response," and other American musical
traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country's popular music …

The Eurocentric hierarchy of cultures established at the turn of the century denigrated the
new American music known as jazz. In contrast to harmonious, complex, exclusive Culture …

" A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald
Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relationship between race …