Queering Kansas City Jazz: Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene

by Amber R Clifford-Napoleone and Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone

The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City's music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city's history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803262914
• ISBN13: 9780803262911
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"