What is this thing called jazz?
Subtitle: African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists
By: Eric Porter.
Series: Music of the African diaspora ;; 6
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: Jazz -- History and criticism; African American jazz musicians; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-382) and index.
Table of contents: title: A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity; title: Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop; title: Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus; title: Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing; title: Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community; title: Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation; title: The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.