Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse (Paperback)

1. Jazz Scholarship, Jazz Canons, and the Canons of Jazz Scholarship 2. Preserving Spontaneity: Jazz, Sound Recording, and the Paradox of Authenticity 3. Elephants and Clowns?: Jazz, Classical Music, and the Third Stream Debate 4. Crime Scores: The Jazz Influence in Television Police and Detective Series Music 5. "Don’t dig that kinda croonin’, chum!": The Discursive Politics of MutableVocal Styles 6. A Question of Standards: ‘My Funny Valentine’ and Musical Intertextuality 7. Of Sunshine and Happy Endings: Jazz, Parody, and the Limits of Interpretation 8. Burns, Baby, Burns: Jazz History as a Contested Cultural Site