Preface |
What is jazz? / Part 1: |
Introduction |
Jazz--The Word / Alan P. Merriam ; Fradley H. GarnerChapter 1: |
Forward Motion: An Interview with Benny Golson / Benny Golson ; Jim MerodChapter 2: |
Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture / James A. SneadChapter 3: |
Black Music as an Art Form / Olly WilsonChapter 4: |
Remembering Thelonious Monk: When the Music Was Happening Then He'd Get Up and Do His Little Dance / Quincy Troupe ; Ben RileyChapter 5: |
Improvisation and the Creative Process / Albert MurrayChapter 6: |
One nation under a groove, or, the united states of jazzocracy / Part 2: |
What's "American" About America / John A. KouwenhovenChapter 7: |
Jazz and the White Critic / Amiri BarakaChapter 8: |
Duke Ellington: "Music Like a Big Hot Pot of Good Gumbo" / Wynton Marsalis ; Robert G. O'MeallyChapter 9: |
Blues to Be Constitutional: A Long Look at the Wild Wherefores of Our Democratic Lives as Symbolized in the Making of Rhythm and Tune / Stanley CrouchChapter 10: |
The Ellington Programme / Barry UlanovChapter 11: |
Jazz lines and colors: the sound i saw / Part 3: |
Art History and Black Memory: Toward a "Blues Aesthetic" / Richard J. PowellChapter 12: |
Skyscrapers, Airplanes, and Airmindedness: "The Necessary Angel" / Ann DouglasChapter 13: |
Profiles: Putting Something Over Something Else / Calvin TomkinsChapter 14: |
Celebration / Sherry Turner DeCaravaChapter 15: |
Black Visual Intonation / Arthur JafaChapter 16: |
Improvisation in Jazz / Bill EvansChapter 17: |
Jazz is a dance: jazz art in motion / Part 4: |
Jazz Music in Motion: Dancers and Big Bands / Jacqui MaloneChapter 18: |
Characteristics of Negro Expression / Zora Neale HurstonChapter 19: |
African Art and Motion / Robert Farris ThompsonChapter 20: |
Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire / Michael Eric DysonChapter 21: |
"Noise" Taps a Historic Route to Joy / Margo JeffersonChapter 22: |
Tell the story: jazz, history, memory / Part 5: |
Pulp and Circumstance: The Story of Jazz in High Places / Gerald EarlyChapter 23: |
Jazz and American Culture / Lawrence W. LevineChapter 24: |
The Golden Age, Time Past / Ralph EllisonChapter 25: |
Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style / Eric LottChapter 26: |
It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues / Hazel V. CarbyChapter 27: |
Constructing the Jazz Tradition / Scott DeVeauxChapter 28: |
Other: From Noun to Verb / Nathaniel MackeyChapter 29: |
Writing the blues, writing jazz / Part 6: |
The Blues as Folk Poetry / Sterling A. BrownChapter 30: |
Richard Wright's Blues / Chapter 31: |
Preface to "Three Plays" / August WilsonChapter 32: |
The Function of the Heroic Image / Chapter 33: |
The Seemingly Eclipsed Window of Form: James Weldon Johnson's Prefaces / Brent EdwardsChapter 34: |
Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol / Chapter 35: |
Sources |
Index |
Preface |
What is jazz? / Part 1: |
Introduction |
Jazz--The Word / Alan P. Merriam ; Fradley H. GarnerChapter 1: |
Forward Motion: An Interview with Benny Golson / Benny Golson ; Jim MerodChapter 2: |
Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture / James A. SneadChapter 3: |