Big Ears
Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies
1st Edition
Published on 7. November 2008
472 pages
978-0-8223-8922-4 (ISBN)
Description
Collection of essays on the role of gender in jazz studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Durham, NC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
19 photographs, 1 table, 4 figures
19 photographs, 1 table, 4 figures
File size
1,86 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8223-8922-4 (9780822389224)
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Book
11/2008
Duke University Press
€125.50
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Nichole T. Rustin is completing a book titled Jazz Men: Race, Masculine Difference, and the Emotions in 1950s America.Sherrie Tucker is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker 1
Part I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History
Separated at "Birth": Singing and the History of Jazz / Lara Pellegrinelli 31
With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor 48
Gender, Jazz, and the Popular Front / Monica Hairston 64
"The Battle of the Saxes": Gender, Dance Bands, and British Nationalism in the Second World War / Christina Baade 90
Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music / Tracy McMullen 129
Part II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance
From the Point of View of the Pavement: A Geopolitics of Black Dance / Jayna Brown 157
Perverse Hysterics: The Noisy Cri of Les Diaboliques / Julie Dawn Smith 180
"Born Out of Jazz. Yet Embracing All Music": Race, Gender, and Technology in George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept / Eric Porter 210
"But This Music is Mine Already!": "White Woman" as Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947) / Sherrie Tucker 235
Fitting the Part / Ingrid Monson 267
Part III. Reimagining Jazz Representations
"Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick" (Lieber Jazzplatte Als Lippenstift): The 1956 Jazz Podium Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Postwar Germany / Ursel Schlicht 291
Exclusion, Openness, and Utopia in Black Male Performance at the World Stage Jazz Jam Sessions / João H. Costa Vargas 320
"It Takes Two People to Confirm the Truth": The Jazz Fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara / Farah Jasmine Griffin 348
"Blow, Man, Blow!": Representing Gender, White Primitives, and Jazz Melodrama Through A Young Man With A Horn / Nichole T. Rustin 361
The Gendered Jazz Aesthetics of That Man of Man: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film / Kristin McGee 393
Bibliography 423
Contributors 435
Index 441
Introduction / Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker 1
Part I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History
Separated at "Birth": Singing and the History of Jazz / Lara Pellegrinelli 31
With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor 48
Gender, Jazz, and the Popular Front / Monica Hairston 64
"The Battle of the Saxes": Gender, Dance Bands, and British Nationalism in the Second World War / Christina Baade 90
Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music / Tracy McMullen 129
Part II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance
From the Point of View of the Pavement: A Geopolitics of Black Dance / Jayna Brown 157
Perverse Hysterics: The Noisy Cri of Les Diaboliques / Julie Dawn Smith 180
"Born Out of Jazz. Yet Embracing All Music": Race, Gender, and Technology in George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept / Eric Porter 210
"But This Music is Mine Already!": "White Woman" as Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947) / Sherrie Tucker 235
Fitting the Part / Ingrid Monson 267
Part III. Reimagining Jazz Representations
"Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick" (Lieber Jazzplatte Als Lippenstift): The 1956 Jazz Podium Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Postwar Germany / Ursel Schlicht 291
Exclusion, Openness, and Utopia in Black Male Performance at the World Stage Jazz Jam Sessions / João H. Costa Vargas 320
"It Takes Two People to Confirm the Truth": The Jazz Fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara / Farah Jasmine Griffin 348
"Blow, Man, Blow!": Representing Gender, White Primitives, and Jazz Melodrama Through A Young Man With A Horn / Nichole T. Rustin 361
The Gendered Jazz Aesthetics of That Man of Man: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film / Kristin McGee 393
Bibliography 423
Contributors 435
Index 441
