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Writing Jazz Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s
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Routledge
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
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This study examines how early writers of jazz criticism (such as Gilbert Seldes and Carl Van Vechten) and literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes)--as well as jazz performers and composers (such as Al Jolson, Sophie Tucker, and George Gershwin)--associated the music directly with questions about identity (racial, ethnic, national, gendered, and sexual) and with historical developments... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Music and National Culture; Chapter 2 “The Jazz Age”; Chapter 3 F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Instabilities of Whiteness; Chapter 4 Wandering Aesthetic, Wandering Consciousness; concl Conclusion;
Biography
Nicholas M. Evans
"Eschewing traditional musicological jazz criticism, Nicholas Evans focuses his study on written accounts of jazz to reveal the music's broader cultural significations during the second and third decades of the twentieth century. Rather than redefining jazz, Evans analyzes what people thought and felt when they came into contact with it." -- American Literature
