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Book SynopsisIs jazz a universal idiom or is it an African-American art form? The author, himself a jazz composer, performer and author of several books on jazz and Latin music, sets out to encourage jazz-lovers to take a rhetoric-free look at the charged issue of race as it has affected the world of jazz.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Black Music, Black Identity African Music, African Identity Race and Religious Identity Race and Jazz Communities Black Music, White Identity Colorless Swing Racial Identity and Two Lives Racial Identity Embedded in Performance Notes Index
