Table of Contents
Introductory Notes, by Robert G. O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin
Songs of the Unsung: The Darby Hicks History of Jazz, by George Lipsitz
"All the Things You Could Be by Now": Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and the Limits of Avant-Garde Jazz, by Salim Washington
Experimental Music in Black and White: The AACM in New York, 1970-1985, by George Lewis
When Malindy Sings: A Meditation on Black Women's Vocality, by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Hipsters, Bluebloods, Rebels, and Hooligans: The Cultural Politics of the Newport Jazz Festival, 1954-1960, by John Gennari
Mainstreaming Monk: The Ellington Album, by Mark Tucker
The Man, by John Szwed
The Real Ambassadors, by Penny M. Von Eschen
Artistic Othering in Black Diaspora Musics: Preliminary Thoughts on Time, Culture, and Politics, by Kevin Gaines
Notes on Jazz in Senegal, by Timothy R. Mangin
Revisiting Romare Bearden's Art of Improvisation, by Diedra Harris-Kelley
Louis Armstrong, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Swing, by Jorge Daniel Veneciano
Checking Our Balances: Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Boop, by Robert G. O'Meally
Paris Blues: Ellington, Armstrong, and Saying It with Music, by Krin Gabbard
"How You Sound??": Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz, by William J. Harris
The Literary Ellington, by Brent Hayes Edwards
"Always New and Centuries Old": Jazz, Poetry and Tradition as Creative Adaptation, by Travis Jackson
A Space We're All Immigrants From: Othering and Communitas in Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook, by Herman Beavers
Exploding the Narrative in Jazz Improvisation, by Vijay Iyer
Beneath the Underground: Exploring New Currents in "Jazz", by Robin D. G. Kelley
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