Jazz and American Culture

Contents

• Introduction a brief history of jazz in American culture Michael Borshuk;
• Part I . Elements of Sound and Style:
• 1. Improvisation Ajay Heble;
• 2. Scat and vocalese Chris Tonnelli;
• 3. Jazz as intertextual expression Charles Hersch;
• 4. How to watch jazz: the importance of performance Michael Borshuk;
• Part II . Aesthetic Movements:
• 5. Jazz age Harlem Fiona Ngo;
• 6. 'Hard Times Don't Worry Me': the blues in Black music and literature in the 1930s Steven Tracy;
• 7. A fool for beauty: modernism and the racial semiotics of crooning Michael Coyle;
• 8. Free Jazz, critical performativity, and 1968 Michael Hrebeniak;
• Part III . Cultural Contexts:
• 9. Jazz slang, jazz speak Amor Kohli;
• 10. Jazz cool Joel Dinerstein;
• 11. The institutionalization of jazz Dale Chapman;
• 12. Jazz abroad Jurgen Grandt;
• Part IV . Literary Genres:
• 13. Orchestrating chaos: othering and the politics of contingency in jazz fiction Herman Beavers;
• 14. 'Wail, wop': jazz poetry on the page and in performance Jessica Teague;
• 15. Jazz criticism and liner notes Timothy Gray;
• 16. Jazz autobiography Daniel Stein;
• 17. Jazz and the American songbook Katherine Williams;
• Part V . Images and Screens:
• 18. 'The Sound I Saw': jazz and visual culture Amy Abugo Ongiri;
• 19. Love, theft, and transcendence: jazz and narrative cinema Krin Gabbard;
• 20. Reinstating televisual histories of jazz Nicolas Pillai;
• 21. Documentary jazz/jazz documentary Will Finch;
• 22. Two dark rooms: jazz and photography Benjamin Cawthra.