Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction  1

1. Desire and Danger in Jazz's Contact Zones  33

2. Queer Modernities  71

3. Orienting Subjectivities  121

4. Dreaming of Araby  155

Conclusion. Academic Indiscretions  187

Notes  193

Bibliography  231

Index  251

"I love this book. It is smart, fresh, and new, a game-changer. Imperial Blues is a theoretically astute and historically grounded cultural studies analysis of empire as central to the circuits of, and discourses about, jazz in Jazz Age New York."—Sherrie Tucker, coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies

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