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Is 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.

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Introduction 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

Jazz in Black and White

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      Publisher: ABC-CLIO
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/30/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780275974398, 978-0275974398
      ISBN10: 0275974391

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Is 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 Contents
      Introduction 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

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