Prologue
Introduction
1 The Early Expressions of Jazz Patronage: Minstrelsy, Secret Societies, and the Patronage of James Reese Europe
2 Picturesque Houses as Incubators of Jazz: The Chitlin’ Circuit, Speakeasies, Bricktop’s, and the Clubs of 52nd Street
3 You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To: The Patronage of Jazz Women as Performers, in Matrifocal Roles, and as Wives and Lovers
4 There Will Never Be Another You: The Patronage of John Hammond and Norman Granz
5 “Ornithology”: The Patronage of Leonard Feather
6 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
7 Stolen Moments: The Record Industrialists and Their Takes of Patronage
8 It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing): The Patronage of Critics, Journalists, Columnists, and Writers
Epilogue
Bibliography
Biography
Jeremy S. Brown is Professor of Music at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
