Writing Jazz
Subtitle: Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780815322269
Subjects: Cultural studies; Jazz; Multicultural studies; Political structures: democracy; Music; Music/Songbooks; Race identity; Music and race; General; Genres & Styles - Jazz; History / General; History & Criticism - General; 1921-1930; African Americans; History and criticism
First sentence: The debates about jazz that emerged circa World War I were conditioned by broader, turn-of-the-century debates about national cultural identity and music's role in defining it.