University Press of America
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978-0-7618-4207-1 • eBook • October 2008 • $52.00 • (£34.95)
Frank A. Salamone is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. He has published extensively on the culture of jazz. Salamone has written on Nigeria, Italians of Rochester, and other anthropological topics. Additionally, he plays saxophone and clarinet enough to marvel at the creativity of jazz musicians.
Chapter 1
Chapter One- The Culture of Jazz and Jazz as Critical Culture
Chapter 2
Chapter Two- Music and Anthropology
Chapter 3
Chapter Three- Teaching the Culture of Jazz
Chapter 4
Chapter Four- Africa as a Metaphor of Authenticity in Jazz
Chapter 5
Chapter Five- The Spread of American Music to the International Scene
Chapter 6
Chapter Six- Jazz and Its Impact on European Classical Music
Chapter 7
Chapter Seven- Creole Performance and the Mass
Chapter 8
Chapter Eight- Jazz in Rochester in the Context of the Wider Scene
Chapter 9
Chapter Nine - Stereotype and Reality: Social and Cultural Characteristics of Members of the Down Beat Hall of Fame
Chapter 10
Chapter Ten -Laughin' Louie: An analysis of Louis Armstrong's Record and Its Relationship to African-American Musical Humor
Chapter 11
Chapter Eleven - Dizzy, Humor, and Subversion of Accepted Reality
Chapter 12
Chapter Twelve - From the Cotton Club to the Cathedral
Chapter 13
Chapter Thirteen - Boppers and Moldy Figs: A Tale of Two Cultures
Chapter 14
Chapter Fourteen -The Force Primeval: The Image of Jazz in American Literature
Chapter 15
Chapter Fifteen - Puttin' It On
Chapter 16
Chapter Sixteen - Did They Make the Scene or Did the Scene Make Them?: Expatriate Jazz Musicians in Europe
Chapter 17
Chapter Seventeen - Close Enough for Jazz: Humor and Jazz Reality
Chapter 18
Chapter Eighteen - He Sang Away My Blues
Chapter 19
Chapter Nineteen - Music and Emotion
Chapter 20
Chapter Twenty - The Good Die Young- The Tragedy of the Jazz Life
Chapter 21
Chapter Twenty-one- Conclusion