Jazz in American culture

Part of the American Ways series, this work presents the history of jazz. Looking at the music, the musicians, and the audience, it traces the emergence of jazz and follows its progress to the present, showing how it has reflected shifting American values.

• Part 1 Introduction
• Part 2 From Ragtime To Jazz In The 1910S p. 10
• Chapter 10 A modernizing society
• Ragtime
• Black musicians and the city
• James Reese Europe and nightlife
• New Orleans
• World War I.
• Part 4 Hot And Sweet, White And Black: The Jazz Age p. 31
• Chapter 31 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.
• Part 6 The Great Depression, The "Common Man," And The Swing Era p. 61
• Chapter 61 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.
• Part 8 Jazz Goes To War p. 85
• Chapter 85 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.
• Part 10 Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, Affluence, And Anxiety p. 109
• Chapter 109 Avant-garde music for the atomic age
• Jazz and the cold war
• Musicians and deviance
• California cool
• Accelerating change in the late fifties.
• Part 12 "We Insist": Jazz Inside And Outside The 1960S p. 134
• Chapter 134 Jazz and the civil rights movement
• The avant-garde and Black Power
• The rock revolution and the apparent decline of jazz.
• Part 14 Fusion And Fragmentation: Jazz At The End Of The American Century p. 155
• Chapter 155 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.
• Part 16 Epilogue p. 177
• Part 17 Suggested Reading p. 185
• Part 18 Index p. 191