Jazz and American Culture

Introduction: a brief history of jazz in American culture Michael Borshuk; Part I. Elements of Sound and Style: 1. Improvisation Ajay Heble; 2. Scat and vocalese Chris Tonelli; 3. Jazz as intertextual expression Charles Hersch; 4. How to watch jazz: the importance of performance Michael Borshuk; Part II. Aesthetic Movements: 5. Jazz age Harlem Fiona Ngo; 6. 'Hard Times Don't Worry Me': the blues in Black music and literature in the 1930s Steven Tracy; 7. A fool for beauty: modernism and the racial semiotics of crooning Michael Coyle; 8. Free Jazz, critical performativity, and 1968 Michael Hrebeniak; Part III. Cultural Contexts: 9. Jazz slang, jazz speak Amor Kohli; 10. Jazz cool Joel Dinerstein; 11. The institutionalization of jazz Dale Chapman; 12. Jazz abroad Jurgen Grandt; Part IV. Literary Genres: 13. Orchestrating chaos: othering and the politics of contingency in jazz fiction Herman Beavers; 14. 'Wail, wop': jazz poetry on the page and in performance Jessica Teague; 15. Jazz criticism and liner notes Timothy Gray; 16. Jazz autobiography Daniel Stein; 17. Jazz and the American songbook Katherine Williams; Part V. Images and Screens: 18. 'The Sound I Saw': jazz and visual culture Amy Abugo Ongiri; 19. Love, theft, and transcendence: jazz and narrative cinema Krin Gabbard; 20. Reinstating televisual histories of jazz Nicolas Pillai; 21. Documentary jazz/jazz documentary Will Finch; 22. Two dark rooms: jazz and photography Benjamin Cawthra.