Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. American Rebels: The Heroic Age of American Art 1
4. PART I: REBELS MAKING ART
5. Interlude 27
6. 1. Miles Davis: Jazz, Race, and Negotiating the Popular 31
7. 2. Martin Scorsese: Rival Narratives of Autonomy in American Film 70
8. PART II: THE BIOGRAPHICAL LEGENDS OF REBELS
9. Interlude 105
10. 3. Miles Davis: The Unreconstructed Black Man in Modern Jazz 109
11. 4. Martin Scorsese: A Sojourn from Italian American to White Ethnic American 146
12. Conclusion. American Rebels: Redux 176
13. Acknowledgments 199
14. Notes 201
15. Index 223