Representing Jazz

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing the Other History -- JAZZ IN LITERATURE AND FILM -- Jammin' the Blues, or the Sight of Jazz, 1944 -- Improvising and Mythmaking in Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse" -- Fabulating Jazz -- Signifyin(g) the Phallus: Mo�...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing the Other History -- JAZZ IN LITERATURE AND FILM -- Jammin' the Blues, or the Sight of Jazz, 1944 -- Improvising and Mythmaking in Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse" -- Fabulating Jazz -- Signifyin(g) the Phallus: Mo' Better Blues and Representations of the Jazz Trumpet -- Jazz Autobiography: Theory, Practice, Politics -- EXCURSUS: CABIN 1M THE SKY -- Uptown Folk: Blackness and Entertainment in Cabin in the Sky -- Doubling, Music, and Race in Cabin in the Sky -- JAZZ AND DANCE -- Divine Frivolity; Hollywood Representations of the Lindy Hop, 1937-1942 -- Keeping the Spirit Alive: The Jazz Dance Testament of Mum Dehn -- PICTURING JAZZ -- Jazz and the New York School -- The Tenor's Vehicle: Reading Way Out West -- VOCALESE: REPRESENTING JAZZ WITH JAZZ -- Purple Passages or Fiestas in Blue~ Notes Toward an Aesthetic of Vocalese -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung