American culture through the lens of jazz music.

Latins : the jazz histories of Lalo Schifrin and Gato Barbieri -- Cosmopolitan tango : Astor Piazzolla at

, 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

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

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

many areas - popular, jazz, blues, country, and ethnic music during a formative and dynamic period 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

influential Argentine musicians of the twentieth century: Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alemán, jazz