Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introductory Notes......Page 14
Part 1......Page 20
Songs of the Unsung: The Darby Hicks History of Jazz......Page 22
“All the Things You Could Be by Now”: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingusand the Limits of Avant-Garde Jazz......Page 40
Experimental Music in Black and White: The AACM in New York, 1970–1985......Page 63
When Malindy Sings: A Meditation on Black Women’s Vocality......Page 115
Hipsters, Bluebloods, Rebels, and Hooligans: The Cultural Politics of the Newport Jazz Festival, 1954–1960......Page 139
Mainstreaming Monk: The Ellington Album......Page 163
The Man......Page 179
Part 2......Page 200
The Real Ambassadors......Page 202
Artistic Othering in Black Diaspora Musics: Preliminary Thoughts on Time, Culture, and Politics......Page 217
Notes on Jazz in Senegal......Page 237
Revisiting Romare Bearden’s Art of Improvisation......Page 262
Louis Armstrong, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Swing......Page 269
Checking Our Balances: Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Boop......Page 291
Paris Blues: Ellington, Armstrong, and Saying It with Music......Page 310
“How You Sound??”: Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz......Page 325
The Literary Ellington......Page 339
“Always New and Centuries Old”: Jazz, Poetry and Tradition as Creative Adaptation......Page 370
A Space We’re All Immigrants From: Othering and Communitas in Nathaniel Mackey’s Bedouin Hornbook......Page 387
Exploding the Narrative in Jazz Improvisation......Page 406
Beneath the Underground: Exploring New Currents in “Jazz”......Page 417
Contributors......Page 430
Index......Page 434
Plate Section 1......Page 442
Plate Section 2......Page 448