Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The genealogy of the modern jazz renaissance -- The jazz art world -- High art an popular art in American music -- Transforming American culture -- 1 Before the jazz age: professional musicians and good music -- Professional musicians: the vernacular tradition and "good" music -- Black professional musicians: the black vernacular and "good" music -- Mediating the popular: the popular music market and non-professional musicians -- Highbrow music: the cultivated tradition in American music -- A separate world: the cultivated tradition and black musicians -- Negroes Perform Their Own Music Annual Concert Reveals But Little Interest in Serious Composition -- Conclusion: American music -- 2 The Jazz Age: professional musicians and the cultivated vernacular -- The jazz craze: popular music and the black vernacular -- The Appeal of the Primitive Jazz -- The Primitive "Jazz" -- Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation? -- A question of style: vernacular jazz and professional musicians -- The Jazz Band - What It Is and Isn't -- A Word of Warning -- Some Further Opinions on "Jazz" by Prominent Writers -- To Discriminate in Music -- One hundred percent American: white professional musicians and the vernacular as high art -- ARE AMERICAN HOTELS SPONSORING A TRULY NATIONAL MUSIC? -- Growing Pains -- Classical or Jazz? -- Selvin's Orchestra, of the Moulin Rouge, New York One of the Finest American Plan Orchestras -- Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra Make Their Debut on the Concert Stage -- Uplifting the race: the black vernacular as high art and the harlem renaissance -- Defending "good" music: jazz and the cultivated tradition -- Capacity House Fervently Applauds as Jazz Invades Realm of Serious Music -- What Modern Music Has Done to the Motion Picture Theaters.

Conclusion: the end of the jazz age -- A New Era Dawns -- 3 The swing craze: professional musicians, swing music, and the art of improvisation -- After the crash: the new popular music industry and sweet music -- The Jazz Pioneers Are Passing Where Do We Go From Here? -- The swing craze: the return of the cultivated jazz vernacular -- We're Coming Out of the Depresh -- Getting respect: the status of black professional musicians and the swing market -- Swing's Black Royalty -- Swing populism: music, class, and race -- Swing Is Here to Stay -- Romantic outsiders: white hepcat musicians as rebels -- The Dilemma of Jazz -- MUSICIANS DESERT GIN & WEED TO SWING AGAIN -- The art of swing: improvisation and jam sessions -- Conclusion: swing as an American art -- Is Swing Dead? -- 4 The rise of a jazz art world: jazz enthusiasts, professional musicians, and the modernist revolt -- Hot jazz: jazz enthusiasts and the rise of a jazz art world -- Don't Talk About Collectors - I Married One with a Wax Head -- The righteous elite: jazz connoisseurs, longhairs, and jitterbugs -- Consider the Critics -- Is Jazz Music? -- Genuine jazz: jazz romanticism and the black vernacular -- Modern swing: professional musicians and the modernist ethos -- Situation Between the Critics and Musicians is Laughable -- How to be a Jazz Critic -- Groovin' high: bebop, hipsters, and the modernist revolt -- Conclusion: things to come -- Rebop, Bebop, and Bop -- 5 The New Jazz Age: the jazz art world and the modern jazz renaissance -- Hard times: American popular music and the jazz cult -- Car's Creed - Do Yourself No Good -- The new jazz age: growth and change in the jazz art world -- The November Revolution -- Music Educators Take a Long, Close Look at Jazz -- The modern jazz renaissance: new directions in jazz music and the modern jazz musician.

Freedom now suite: black music and the politics of modern jazz -- New Black Music -- The literation of jazz: jazz criticism, literature, and the jazz tradition -- Conclusion: the end of the modern jazz renaissance -- Conclusion -- Jazz and American culture -- The sociology of culture -- Bibliography -- Index.