Jazz in American culture
By: Peter Townsend.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Jackson, Miss
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I The Language: Jazz as Music; title: 2 'A Marvel of Social Organization': Jazz as a Culture; title: 3 Rhythm is our Business: The Swing Era I935-45; title: 4 Telling the Story: The Representation of Jazz; title: 5 'An Analogous Dynamic in the Design':; title: Jazz as Aesthetic Model; title: 6 'A Tamed Richness': Jazz as Myth; title: Select Bibliography; title: Index.