Title: Jazz in Black and White :
Authors: Gerard, Charley.
Date: 1998
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Physical description: xx, 202 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Abstract: Is jazz a universal idiom or is it an art form belonging exclusively to African Americans? Although whites have been playing jazz almost since it first developed, the history of jazz has been forged by a series of African-American artists whose styles electrified their musical generation - masters such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. The issue of racial identity in jazz music is the focus of this personal look at the world of jazz music. It is examined in the context of nearly a century of African-American music, its unforgettably talented musicians, and the phenomena - from slavery, to black nationalism, to the Nation of Islam - that have shaped the African-American community as a whole.
Contents: Black Music, Black Identity -- African Music, African Identity -- Race and Religious Identity -- Race and Jazz Communities -- Black Music, White Identity -- Colorless Swing -- Racial Identity and Three Lives -- Racial Identity Embedded in Performance -- The Right of Swing.
Subject headings (LCSH): African Americans--Race identity.; Jazz--History and criticism.; Music and race.; United States--Race relations.