"Opening new vistas upon the study of jazz in the humanities, Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker guide a vibrant and profound conversation at the nexus of performance studies, film and literary studies, gender studies, and many other fields. The unprecedented range and scope of this essential new collection affirm the centrality of improvisation to our understanding of culture."--George E. Lewis, author of "A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music"
"Opening new vistas upon the study of jazz in the humanities, Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker guide a vibrant and profound conversation at the nexus of performance studies, film and literary studies, gender studies, and many other fields. The unprecedented range and scope of this essential new collection affirm the centrality of improvisation to our understanding of culture."--George E. Lewis, author of "A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music"
Nichole T. Rustin is completing a book titled Jazz Men: Race, Masculine Difference, and the Emotions in 1950s America. Sherrie Tucker is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s , also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker 1 Part I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History Separated at "Birth": Singing and the History of Jazz / Lara Pellegrinelli 31 With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor 48 Gender, Jazz, and the Popular Front / Monica Hairston 64 "The Battle of the Saxes": Gender, Dance Bands, and British Nationalism in the Second World War / Christina Baade 90 Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music / Tracy McMullen 129 Part II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance From the Point of View of the Pavement: A Geopolitics of Black Dance / Jayna Brown 157 Perverse Hysterics: The Noisy Cri of Les Diaboliques / Julie Dawn Smith 180 "Born Out of Jazz . . . Yet Embracing All Music": Race, Gender, and Technology in George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept / Eric Porter 210 "But This Music is Mine Already!" : "White Woman" as Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947) / Sherrie Tucker 235 Fitting the Part / Ingrid Monson 267 Part III. Reimagining Jazz Representations "Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick" (Lieber Jazzplatte Als Lippenstift): The 1956 Jazz Podium Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Postwar Germany / Ursel Schlicht 291 Exclusion, Openness, and Utopia in Black Male Performance at the World Stage Jazz Jam Sessions / João H. Costa Vargas 320 "It Takes Two People to Confirm the Truth": The Jazz Fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara / Farah Jasmine Griffin 348 "Blow, Man, Blow!": Representing Gender, White Primitives, and Jazz Melodrama Through A Young Man With A Horn / Nichole T. Rustin 361 The Gendered Jazz Aesthetics of That Man of Man: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film / Kristin McGee 393 Bibliography 423 Contributors 435 Index 441
Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker 1 Part I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History Separated at "Birth": Singing and the History of Jazz / Lara Pellegrinelli 31 With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor 48 Gender, Jazz, and the Popular Front / Monica Hairston 64 "The Battle of the Saxes": Gender, Dance Bands, and British Nationalism in the Second World War / Christina Baade 90 Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music / Tracy McMullen 129 Part II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance From the Point of View of the Pavement: A Geopolitics of Black Dance / Jayna Brown 157 Perverse Hysterics: The Noisy Cri of Les Diaboliques / Julie Dawn Smith 180 "Born Out of Jazz . . . Yet Embracing All Music": Race, Gender, and Technology in George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept / Eric Porter 210 "But This Music is Mine Already!" : "White Woman" as Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947) / Sherrie Tucker 235 Fitting the Part / Ingrid Monson 267 Part III. Reimagining Jazz Representations "Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick" (Lieber Jazzplatte Als Lippenstift): The 1956 Jazz Podium Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Postwar Germany / Ursel Schlicht 291 Exclusion, Openness, and Utopia in Black Male Performance at the World Stage Jazz Jam Sessions / João H. Costa Vargas 320 "It Takes Two People to Confirm the Truth": The Jazz Fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara / Farah Jasmine Griffin 348 "Blow, Man, Blow!": Representing Gender, White Primitives, and Jazz Melodrama Through A Young Man With A Horn / Nichole T. Rustin 361 The Gendered Jazz Aesthetics of That Man of Man: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film / Kristin McGee 393 Bibliography 423 Contributors 435 Index 441
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