The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Paperback)

What Is Jazz?
Introduction
Jazz—the Word, by Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner
Forward Motion: An Interview with Benny Golson, by Benny Golson and Jim Merod
James A. Snead
Black Music as an Art Form, by Olly Wilson
Remembering Thelonious Monk: When the Music Was Happening Then He'd Get Up and Do His Little Dance, by Quincy Troupe and Ben Riley
Improvisation and the Creative Process, by Albert Murray
One Nation Under a Groove; or, the United States of Jazzocracy
Introduction
What's American About America, by John Kouwenhoven
Jazz and the White Critic, by Amiri Baraka
Duke Ellington Music Like a Big Hot Pot of Good Gumbo, by Wynton Marsalis and Robert G. O'Meally
Blues to Be Constitutional: A Long Look at the Wild Wherefores of Our Democratic Lives as Symbolized in the Making of Rhythm and Tune, by Stanley Crouch
The Ellington Programme, by Barry Ulanov
Jazz Lines and Colors: The Sound I Saw
Introduction
Art History and Black Memory: Toward a Blues Aesthetic, by Richard J. Powell
Skyscrapers, Airplanes, and Airmindedness: The Necessary Angel, by Ann Douglas
Calvin Tomkins
Celebration, by Sherry Turner DeCarava
Black Visual Intonation, by Arthur Jafa
Improvisation in Jazz, by Bill Evans
Jazz is a Dance: Jazz art in Motion
Introduction
Jazz Music in Motion: Dancers and Big Bands, by Jacqui Malone
Characteristics of Negro Expression, by Zora Neale Hurston
African Art and Motion, by Robert Farris Thompson
Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire, by Michael Eric Dyson
Noise Taps a Historic Route to Joy, by Margo Jefferson
Tell the Story: Jazz, History, Memory
Introduction
Pulp and Circumstance: The Story of Jazz in High Places, by Gerald Early
Jazz and American Culture, by Lawrence W. Levine
The Golden Age, Time Past, by Ralph Ellison
Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style, by Eric Lott
It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues, by Hazel V. Carby
Other: From Noun to Verb, by Nathaniel Mackey
Writing the Blues, Writing Jazz
Introduction
The Blues as Folk Poetry, by Sterling A. Brown
Richard Wright's Blues, by Ralph Ellison
Preface to Three Plays, by August Wilson
The Function of the Heroic Image, by Albert Murray
The Seemingly Eclipsed Window of Form: James Weldon Johnson's Prefaces, by Brent Edwards
Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol, by Nathaniel Mackey