This article presents an analysis of the musical syncretism involved in the development of a
modern jazz tradition in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. It shows …

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 …

Introduction1 The history of jazz, unlike that of classical music, has always tended to be
viewed in social as well as musical terms. Although its exact origins and earliest …

The article examines the controversy over the status of 'the jazz tradition'—the identification
of a set of central musicians, performances, and stylistic features. The differing views of its …

Jazz music developed before 1940 amid persistent racial discrimination, industrialization,
urbanization, immigrant assimilation, and other general conditions which shaped social and …

The diffusion of jazz into the musical mainstream during the 1920s served as a site for the
struggle to define ongoing changes both in the arts and in the broader society. I analyze the …

This dissertation explores the question of who makes decisions about the value of a cultural
form and on what basis, taking as its example the impact of 1960s free improvisation on the …

I think it'sa very simple deduction that the music is Negro music to begin with; and for these
guys [critics] to write about the music as though it's an American music, that everybody plays …

In 1960, two anthropologists, Alan Merriam and Raymond Mack, noted a discrepancy in jazz
scholarship.“The literature on jazz,” they wrote,“which has grown enormously in recent …

Jazz in America, once identified with social rebellion and political protest, has since the
1980s become closely associated with cultural conservatism, a belief system that places …