, performers and improvisers as co-composers, the communal character of music, jazz as hybrid and socially

America's golden era of music. Readers are transported into the Jazz Age through sweeping, bold

magic that is jazz, particularly the element of Tricksterism in the music. In some sense, anyone who is

Covers the music, the musicians, the instruments, and music's place in cultural history. Presents a

-- FOUR. On the Jazz Age and George Gershwin -- FIVE. With a French Accent: Nadia Boulanger -- SIX. From

Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- The Roots Run Deep -- Texan Jazz -- Put a Nickel in

MOUTHFUL OF WORDS -- 13 FREDDY HEINEKEN: HE BREW -- 14 SERIOUS MUSIC: KULTURE IN THE GOYISH ALPS -- 15

Jazz: The Australian Accent explores the unique developments in Australian jazz over the last

-- Chapter 4: Using Jazz Music and Aesthetics to Redescribe the African American in Toni Morrison's Jazz

Series Editor's Foreword -- 1 Is Jazz About Music Anymore? -- 2 The Activist Jazz Writers -- 3 Good

. Indigenous Music and Dance in Mbare Township, 1930-1960 -- 3. The Settler-State and Indigenous Music during

In Noise Orders, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and