Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Jazz Canon and Its Consequences 1
5. RETHINKING JAZZ HISTORY
6. "Moldy Figs" and Modernists: Jazz at War (I942-I946) 31
7. Jazz in Crisis, I948-I958: Ideology and Representation 57
8. Other: From Noun to Verb 76
9. Historical Context and the Definition of Jazz: Putting More of the History in "Jazz History" 100
10. Oral Histories of Jazz Musicians: The NEA Transcripts as Texts in Context 117
11. The Media of Memory: The Seductive Menace of Records in Jazz History 134
12. THE JAZZ ARTIST AMONG THE DISCOURSES
13. "Out of Notes": Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis 165
14. Critical Alchemy; Anthony Braxton and the Imagined Tradition 189
15. Ephemera Underscored: Writing Around Free Improvisation 217
16. THE ESSENTIAL COM TEXT: JAZZ AND POLITICS
17. Double V; Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style 243
18. Ascension: Music and the Black Arts Movement 256
19. Contributors 275
20. Index 277