The color of jazz: race and representation in postwar American culture

This study of America's attitudes toward jazz focuses on a momentous period in postwar history - from the end of World War II to the beginning of the Black Power Movement. Exploring the diverse representations of jazz and jazz musicians in literature and popular culture, it connects this uneven...

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1. Verfasser: Panish, Jon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jackson Univ. Press of Mississippi 1997
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Zusammenfassung:This study of America's attitudes toward jazz focuses on a momentous period in postwar history - from the end of World War II to the beginning of the Black Power Movement. Exploring the diverse representations of jazz and jazz musicians in literature and popular culture, it connects this uneven reception and skewed use of jazz with the era's debates about race and racial difference
Beschreibung:1. Blinded by the White: The Hidden History of Postwar Racial Politics -- 2. Racing the Village People: Euro American and African American Cultural and Social Interaction in Greenwich Village, 1945-1966 -- 3. Caging Bird: Charlie Parker Meets the Postwar Construction of the Jazz Musician -- 4. (Up)Staging Jazz: Representations of Jazz Performance -- 5. Improvising the Text: Euro American and African American Approaches to Jazz Narrative
Beschreibung:XXIII, 166 S.
ISBN:1578060354
1578060338

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