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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808622103321

Autore

Sandke Randy

Titolo

Where the dark and the light folks meet : race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz / / Randall Sandke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-48033-2

9786612480331

0-8108-6990-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Studies in jazz ; ; no. 60

Disciplina

781.6509

Soggetti

Jazz - History and criticism

Jazz - Political aspects - United States

Music and race - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Chapter 01: Is Jazz About Music Anymore?; Chapter 02: The Activist Jazz Writers; Chapter 03: Good Intentions and Bad History; Chapter 04: What Gets Left Out; Chapter 05: The Road to Radicalism; Chapter 06: Radical Ideas and Retro Music; Chapter 07: The Biggest Myth of All; Chapter 08: It's Strictly Business; Chapter 09: Copyrights: Accounting Without Accountability; Chapter 10: Show Me the Money; Chapter 11: Is Everything About Race?; Chapter 12: Tomorrow Is the Question; Books and Interviews Cited; Index

About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Sandke tackles the stubborn and controversial question of whether jazz is the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination; or whether it is more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture. This book takes the latter course and shows how the widely accepted exclusionary view has led to decades of misunderstanding surrounding the true history and nature of jazz.