Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: . . . And in 2014 -- Free Jazz/Black Power: An Introduction -- Translator's Note -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Introduction (1971) -- Part I: Not a Black Problem, But a White Problem -- 1. Jazz Today -- 2. Economic Ownership of Jazz -- 3. Cultural Colonization -- 4. The Blind Task of Criticism -- Part II: Notes on a Black History of Jazz Three Preliminary Remarks -- 5. What the Blues Say -- 6. Black Music before Jazz -- 7. In the Margins of Jazz History -- Part III: Contradictions of Jazz in a State of Freedom -- 8. Free Fragments -- 9. Music/Politics -- Preface to the 1979 Edition -- Preface to the 2000 Edition: Free Jazz, Off Program, Off Topic, Off Screen -- Notes -- Discography -- Works Cited -- Index.