Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The Jazz Canon and Its Consequences / Krin Gabbard 1

Rethinking Jazz History

"Moldy Figs" and Modernists: Jazz at War (1942–1946) / Bernard Gendron 31

Jazz in Crisis, 1948–1958: Ideology and Representation / Steven B. Elworth 57

Other: From Noun to Verb / Nathaniel Mackey 76

Historical Context and the Definition of Jazz: Putting More of the History in "Jazz History" / William Howland Kenney 100

Oral Histories of Jazz Musicians: The NEA Transcripts as Texts in Context / Burton W. Peretti 117

The Media of Memory: The Seductive Menace of Records in Jazz History / Jed Rasula 134

Jazz Artists Among the Discourses

"Out of Notes": Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis / Robert Walser 165

Critical Alchemy: Anthony Braxton and the Imagined Tradition / Ronald M. Radano 189

Ephemera Underscored: Writing Around Free Improvisation / John Corbett 217

The Essential Context: Jazz and Politics

Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style / Eric Lott 243

Ascension: Music and the Black Arts Movement / Lorenzo Thomas 256

Contributors 275

Index 277

Krin Gabbard

Bernard L. Gendron

Steven B. Elworth

Nathaniel Mackey

Burton W. Peretti

Jed Rasula

Robert Walser

Ronald Radano

John Corbett

Eric Lott

"A most valuable and engrossing book that will surely be read by all those who write about jazz. Fans will also seek it out. It offers a wealth of perspectives, allowing the reader to learn what people in other disciplines have to say about jazz."—Lewis Porter, author, with Michael Ullman, of Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present — N/A

"A remarkable variety of voices and perspectives, and yet the overall thrust of the collection—to establish the groundwork on which a field of jazz studies could be founded—is quite clear. Jazz Among the Discourses will have an obvious impact on musicology, simply because nothing like it has ever been attempted."—Scott DeVeaux, University of Virginia — N/A

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