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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Writing the Other History 1
5. JAZZ IN LITERATURE AND FILM
6. Jammin' the Blues, or the Sight of Jazz, 1944 11
7. Improvising and Mythmaking in Eudora Welty's "Powerhouse" 54
8. Fabulating Jazz 70
9. Signifyin(g) the Phallus: Mo' Better Blues and Representations of the Jazz Trumpet 104
10. Jazz Autobiography: Theory, Practice, Politics 131
11. EXCURSUS: CABIN 1M THE SKY
12. Uptown Folk: Blackness and Entertainment in Cabin in the Sky 169
13. Doubling, Music, and Race in Cabin in the Sky 193
14. JAZZ AND DANCE
15. Divine Frivolity; Hollywood Representations of the Lindy Hop, 1937-1942 207
16. Keeping the Spirit Alive: The Jazz Dance Testament of Mum Dehn 229
17. PICTURING JAZZ
18. Jazz and the New York School 247
19. The Tenor's Vehicle: Reading Way Out West 260
20. VOCALESE: REPRESENTING JAZZ WITH JAZZ
21. Purple Passages or Fiestas in Blue~ Notes Toward an Aesthetic of Vocalese 285
22. Contributors 305
23. Index 307