JAZZ IN AMERICAN CULTURE

by Peretti, Burton W.

• ISBN13: 9781566631426
• ISBN10: 1566631424
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Ivan R Dee

Summary

The first compact history of jazz to place it within the broad context of American culture. Peretti chronicles the rise and permutations of the music itself, assesses its players and its audiences, and explores the critical debates it has prompted. Straightforward...accessible...heartily recommended.--Library Journal American Ways Series

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(7)
1 From Ragtime to Jazz in the 1910s A modernizing society. Ragtime. Black musicians and the city. James Reese Europe and nightlife. New Orleans. World War I.	10	(21)
2 Hot and Sweet, White and Black: The Jazz Age The first jazz vogue of the 1920s. Post-Victorian mass leisure. Debate between modernists and traditionalists. African-American communities and jazz. Musicians and the color line.	31	(30)
3 The Great Depression, the "Common Man," and the Swing Era Growth of the music and the business. Economic impact of the depression. Political reform and the culture of the thirties. The swing boom in New Deal context.	61	(24)
4 Jazz Goes to War Economic upheavals after 1939 in society and popular music. Music on the home front and overseas. Evolution of musical tastes. Dixieland and bebop. Critics, musicians, and the postwar temper.	85	(24)
5 Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, Affluence, and Anxiety Avant-garde music for the atomic age. Jazz and the cold war. Musicians and deviance. California cool. Accelerating change in the late fifties.	109	(25)
6 "We Insist": Jazz Inside and Outside the 1960s Jazz and the civil rights movement. The avant-garde and Black Power. The rock revolution and the apparent decline of jazz.	134	(21)
7 Fusion and Fragmentation: Jazz at the End of the American Century Fusion and funk in the early seventies. Jazz, country, and the politics of culture. Conservatism and "classic" jazz in the eighties. Race, class, and jazz into the 1990s.	155	(22)
Epilogue	177	(8)
Suggested Reading	185	(6)
Index	191