Roy Haynes -- Sonny Rollins (Our Man in Jazz) -- A Jazz Great: John Coltrane -- Coltrane Live at

of protest music over the past five decades. The marriage of music and social change didn't originate

Cultural Practice -- 3. The Jazz Left -- PART II: Tactics -- 4. Where Have All the Black Shows Gone? -- 5

-- Afro-Celtic Fusion -- PART I -- Minstrelsy, or Get Out de Way -- America's First Music Craze -- The Horrors

-- Nathaniel Mackey's Unit Structures -- Shamans of Song: Music and the Politics of Culture in Alice Walker's

enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity

jazz— that would, with their derivations, dominate popular music to this day. Ragtime introduced

American Popular Song -- 7. Blues Line -- 8. Cosby and the Music -- 9. Nina Returns -- 10. Jazz Criticim

collections, the book is of crucial importance for understanding the roots of ragtime, blues, jazz, and gospel