A persuasive appreciation of what jazz is and of how it has permeated and enriched the culture of America

Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent stateme

Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked

From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolu