Prologue
Introduction
Chapter One: The Early Expressions of Jazz Patronage: Minstrelsy, Secret Societies and the Patronage of James Reese Europe
Chapter Two: Picturesque Houses as Incubators of Jazz: The Chitlin’ Circuit, Speakeasies, Bricktop’s, and the Clubs of 52nd Street
Chapter Three: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To: The Patronage of Jazz Women as Performers, in Matrifocal Roles, and as Wives and Lovers
Chapter Four: There Will Never Be Another You: The Patronage of John Hammond and Norman Granz
Chapter Five: Ornithology: Leonard Feather (A Rare Bird) and His Patronage
Chapter Six: Someone to Watch Over Me: The Patronage of the Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild de Königswarter, the Duchess, Doris Duke, and the Parisian, Francis Paudras
Chapter Seven: Stolen Moments: The Record Industrialists and Their Takes of Patronage
Chapter Eight: It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing: The Critics, Journalists, Columnists and Writers
Epilogue
Bibliography
Biography
Jeremy S. Brown is Professor of Music at the University of Calgary in Alberta Canada.
