{"product_id":"big-ears-9780822343363","title":"Big Ears","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn jazz circles, players and listeners with \"big ears\" hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this title explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBig Ears\u003c\/i\u003e is a breath of fresh air in contemporary jazz studies. Whereas the field has exploded during the last several years, this is the first volume specifically devoted to new work on gender and jazz. The essays here are wide-ranging in form, content, and method. They pay admirable attention to jazz across media (in film, concerts, recordings) and in international, not just U.S., contexts.”—\u003cb\u003eGayle Wald\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eShout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Opening new vistas upon the study of jazz in the humanities, Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker guide a vibrant and profound conversation at the nexus of performance studies, film and literary studies, gender studies, and many other fields. The unprecedented range and scope of this essential new collection affirm the centrality of improvisation to our understanding of culture.”—\u003cb\u003eGeorge E. Lewis\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History \u003cbr\u003e Separated at \"Birth\": Singing and the History of Jazz \/ Lara Pellegrinelli 31\u003cbr\u003e With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s \/ Jeffrey Taylor 48\u003cbr\u003e Gender, Jazz, and the Popular Front \/ Monica Hairston 64\u003cbr\u003e \"The Battle of the Saxes\": Gender, Dance Bands, and British Nationalism in the Second World War \/ Christina Baade 90\u003cbr\u003e Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music \/ Tracy McMullen 129\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance \u003cbr\u003e From the Point of View of the Pavement: A Geopolitics of Black Dance \/ Jayna Brown 157\u003cbr\u003e Perverse Hysterics: The Noisy \u003ci\u003eCri\u003c\/i\u003e of Les Diaboliques \/ Julie Dawn Smith 180\u003cbr\u003e \"Born Out of Jazz . . . Yet Embracing All Music\": Race, Gender, and Technology in George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept \/ Eric Porter 210\u003cbr\u003e \"But This Music is Mine Already!\" : \"White Woman\" as Jazz Collector in the Film \u003ci\u003eNew Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e (1947) \/ Sherrie Tucker 235\u003cbr\u003e Fitting the Part \/ Ingrid Monson 267\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Reimagining Jazz Representations \u003cbr\u003e \"Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick\" (\u003ci\u003eLieber Jazzplatte Als Lippenstift\u003c\/i\u003e): The 1956 \u003ci\u003eJazz Podium\u003c\/i\u003e Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Postwar Germany \/ Ursel Schlicht 291\u003cbr\u003e Exclusion, Openness, and Utopia in Black Male Performance at the World Stage Jazz Jam Sessions \/ João H. Costa Vargas 320\u003cbr\u003e \"It Takes Two People to Confirm the Truth\": The Jazz Fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara \/ Farah Jasmine Griffin 348\u003cbr\u003e \"Blow, Man, Blow!\": Representing Gender, White Primitives, and Jazz Melodrama Through \u003ci\u003eA Young Man With A Horn\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Nichole T. Rustin 361\u003cbr\u003e The Gendered Jazz Aesthetics of \u003ci\u003eThat Man of Man\u003c\/i\u003e: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film \/ Kristin McGee 393\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 423\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 435\u003cbr\u003e Index 441","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51534990868823,"sku":"9780822343363","price":107.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822343363.jpg?v=1755858511","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/big-ears-9780822343363","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}