Part 1: Becoming American
1. Jewish Tin Pan Alley Composers and Musical Pluralism
2. Black-Jewish Integration in the Jazz World from the Swing Era to the 1950s
3. "Listening for the Black Sound": Jews in the Jazz Music Business
Part 2: Becoming Black
4. "Every Time I Try to Play Black, It Comes Out Jewish": Jewish Jazz Musicians Cross the Color Line
5. "Matzo Balls-Ereenie": African American Jazz Versions of Jewish Songs
Part 3: Becoming Jewish
6. Swinging Hava Nagila: "Jewish Jazz" and Jewish Identity
Biography
Charles Hersch is Professor of Political Science at Cleveland State University. He is also the author of Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan and Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans.
"...this book is a jewel for jazz enthusiasts and a prize for any music library."
- Norm Goldman, bookpleasures.com
“A definitive model of outstanding scholarship and an invaluable contribution to the study of American Music History collections in general, and Jazz History supplemental studies reading lists in particular.” -Willis M. Buhle, Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
