Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture

by Jon Panish

Book Overview

Although now sometimes called "America's classical music," jazz has not always been accorded favorable appellations. Accurate though these encomiums may be, they obscure the complex and fractious history of jazz's reception in the US. Developing out of the African American cultural tradition, jazz has always been variously understood by Black and white audiences.

This penetrating study of America's attitudes toward jazz focuses on a momentous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578060338
• ISBN13: 9781578060337
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"