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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Dedication Selected Tete Montoliu Vinyl Discography Note on Theodor W. Adorno and Jazz Criticism Introduction Tete's Musical Biography Anti-Jazz Attitudes and Transnational Encounters in Spain Jazz as Gathering in Difference Chapter 1 - Sketches of Flamenco Sketches of Spain, Francoism and Regressive Listening Vibing with Lionel Hampton on Jazz Flamenco (1956) To The European All Stars 1961 and Beyond Chapter 2 - The Urban Soundscapes of Modern Jazz Jazz and the City Tete and the Speed, Spontaneity and Shifting Conditions of Urban Modernity Europe's Urban Jazz Circuits, Kirk in Copenhagen (1963), and Lliure Jazz (1969) Chapter 3 - Performing Catalanism Jazz Age Barcelona and the First International Jazz Festival Tete's Catalanism, A tot jazz (1965), and the Nova Cançó Catalan Jazz Composition and Catalonian Folksongs (1977) Chapter 4 - Blues, Braille and the Metanarrative of Blindness Disability, Impairment and Tete's Musical Education Blues Traditions, Sighted Culture, and Disability in Modern Music Album Covers and the Visual Business of Listening to Jazz Epilogue - The Jazz Artist in Transnational Popular Culture Notes References Discography and Further Listening Index