Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Charles Ives’S Four Ragtime Dances And “True American Music” 17
7. 2. Jelly Roll Morton And The Spanish Tinge 48
8. 3. Louis Armstrong And The Great Migration 83
9. 4. Chinatown, Whose Chinatown? Defining America’S Borders With Musical Orientalism 121
10. 5. Sounds Of Paradise: Hawai'i And The American Musical Imagination 165
11. Conclusion: American Music At The Turn Of A New Century 215
12. Notes 223
13. Bibliography 259
14. Index 277