Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography

by Aaron Lefkovitz

Book Overview

This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498567533
• ISBN13: 9781498567534
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"