Jazz/Not Jazz

David Ake isis Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami. Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and the author of Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century, (UC Press). Daniel Goldmark is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author and co-author of three books for UC Press: Tunes for 'Toons, Beyond the Soundtrack, and Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Hollywood

"A sterling collection of writings... There are no misfires. This collection will be useful for decades to come... Highly recommended." -- G. A. Akkerman, University of South Carolina Upstate Choice

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Categories 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography Eric Porter 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo Elijah Wald 3. The Humor of Jazz Charles Hiroshi Garrett 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community Ken Prouty 5. Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just ... Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music Christopher Washburne Part Two. Practices 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook John Howland 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Records and the Problems of Genre Daniel Goldmark 8. The Praxis of Composition-Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship Tamar Barzel 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz Loren Kajikawa Part Three. Education 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education Jessica Bissett Perea 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education David Ake 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies Sherrie Tucker Contributors Index