Knowing Jazz. Some groups, such as those in academia, reflect a clash of sensibilities between historical

photographic depictions of African American jazz musicians in New York not only created a visual template of a

for rock and country music? In Why Jazz?, author and NPR jazz critic Kevin Whitehead provides lively

Haenfler -- Digging a river downstream : producing emergence in music / Nick Dempsey -- Teaching the art of

intimate. His stories resonate with lessons learned from hearing and playing alongside such legends as Art

connections between jazz art and postmodernist thought. Present throughout Majer's spirited encounters with

Orleans and New York -- Two Crazes: Jazz, 1917-1921 -- The Blues, 1920-1924 -- Birth of a New Art: Enrico

of his love of jazz and blues, his opera and musical theater collaborations, and his participation in

DeVeaux takes a central chapter in the history of jazz-the birth of bebop-and shows how our contemporary

other geographies and into other dimensions of art or thought: jazz music and formalism in the case of

instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the book considers the

the man and his extraordinary range of musical experience, taste, and learning. In Part I, "Jazz and