The Rise of a Jazz Art World

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
The genealogy of the modern jazz renaissance......Page 12
The jazz art world......Page 14
High art an popular art in American music......Page 15
Transforming American culture......Page 18
1 Before the jazz age: professional musicians and good music......Page 21
Professional musicians: the vernacular tradition and “good” music......Page 24
Black professional musicians: the black vernacular and “good” music......Page 32
Mediating the popular: the popular music market and non-professional musicians......Page 37
Highbrow music: the cultivated tradition in American music......Page 42
A separate world: the cultivated tradition and black musicians......Page 49
Negroes Perform Their Own Music Annual Concert Reveals But Little Interest in Serious Composition......Page 53
Conclusion: American music......Page 54
2 The Jazz Age: professional musicians and the cultivated vernacular......Page 56
The Appeal of the Primitive Jazz......Page 59
The Primitive “Jazz”......Page 60
Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?......Page 61
The Jazz Band – What It Is and Isn’t......Page 63
A Word of Warning......Page 64
To Discriminate in Music......Page 65
ARE AMERICAN HOTELS SPONSORING A TRULY NATIONAL MUSIC?......Page 72
Growing Pains......Page 76
Classical or Jazz?......Page 77
Selvin’s Orchestra, of the Moulin Rouge, New York One of the Finest American Plan Orchestras......Page 78
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra Make Their Debut on the Concert Stage......Page 81
Uplifting the race: the black vernacular as high art and the harlem renaissance......Page 85
Defending “good” music: jazz and the cultivated tradition......Page 91
Capacity House Fervently Applauds as Jazz Invades Realm of Serious Music......Page 96
What Modern Music Has Done to the Motion Picture Theaters......Page 102
A New Era Dawns......Page 103
3 The swing craze: professional musicians, swing music, and the art of improvisation......Page 106
The Jazz Pioneers Are Passing Where Do We Go From Here?......Page 108
We’re Coming Out of the Depresh......Page 116
Swing’s Black Royalty......Page 121
Swing Is Here to Stay......Page 132
The Dilemma of Jazz......Page 144
MUSICIANS DESERT GIN & WEED TO SWING AGAIN......Page 152
The art of swing: improvisation and jam sessions......Page 156
Is Swing Dead?......Page 164
4 The rise of a jazz art world: jazz enthusiasts, professional musicians, and the modernist revolt......Page 167
Don’t Talk About Collectors – I Married One with a Wax Head......Page 169
The righteous elite: jazz connoisseurs, longhairs, and jitterbugs......Page 184
Consider the Critics......Page 188
Is Jazz Music?......Page 190
Genuine jazz: jazz romanticism and the black vernacular......Page 196
Situation Between the Critics and Musicians is Laughable......Page 208
How to be a Jazz Critic......Page 212
Groovin’ high: bebop, hipsters, and the modernist revolt......Page 214
Rebop, Bebop, and Bop......Page 224
5 The New Jazz Age: the jazz art world and the modern jazz renaissance......Page 227
Hard times: American popular music and the jazz cult......Page 229
Car’s Creed – Do Yourself No Good......Page 232
The new jazz age: growth and change in the jazz art world......Page 235
The November Revolution......Page 243
Music Educators Take a Long, Close Look at Jazz......Page 246
The modern jazz renaissance: new directions in jazz music and the modern jazz musician......Page 252
Freedom now suite: black music and the politics of modern jazz......Page 261
New Black Music......Page 267
The literation of jazz: jazz criticism, literature, and the jazz tradition......Page 270
Conclusion: the end of the modern jazz renaissance......Page 276
Conclusion......Page 279
Jazz and American culture......Page 281
The sociology of culture......Page 284
Bibliography......Page 289
Index......Page 297