Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Categories
7. 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography 13
8. 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo 31
9. 3. The Humor of Jazz 49
10. 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community 70
11. 5. Latin Jazz, Afro- Latin Jazz, Afro- Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Ca rib be an Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just . . . Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music 89
12. Part Two. Practices
13. 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook 111
14. 7. “Slightly Left of Center”: Atlantic Rec ords and the Problems of Genre 148
15. 8. The Praxis of Composition- Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship 171
16. 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz 190
17. Part Three. Education
18. 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education 219
19. 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education 237
20. 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The “Subjectless Subject” of New Jazz Studies 264
21. Contributors 285
22. Index 289