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| Preface: The AACM and American Experimentalism | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: An AACM Book: Origins, Antecedents, Objectives, Methods | |
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| Chapter Summaries | |
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| Foundations And Prehistory | |
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| Coming North: From Great Migration to Great Depression | |
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| Early Musical Experiences | |
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| Improvisation and Autodidacticism in 1950s Chicago | |
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| The End of an Era | |
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| New Music, New York | |
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| Culutures of Spontaneity: Integrationism and the Two Avant-Gardes | |
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| Beyond a Bebop Boundary: The Challenge of New Music | |
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| Critical Responses: Anger, Noise, Faillure | |
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| A Far Cry from New York: Segregation and Chicago Music | |
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| The Development of the Experimental Band | |
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| Alternative Pedagogies of Experimental Music | |
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| Eyes on the Sparrow: The First New Chicagoans | |
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| Founding The Collective | |
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| Urban Decline and the Turn to Communitarianism | |
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| Born on the Kitchen Table: Conceiving the Association | |
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| Naming Ceremony: Black Power and Black Institutions | |
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| First Fruits | |
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| The First Year: Concerts, Critics, and Issues | |
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| New Arrivals and the University of Chicago | |
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| Travel, Recording, and Intermedia | |
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| Memories of the Sun: The AACM and Sun Ra | |
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| The AACM Takes Off | |
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| The Black Arts Movement in Chicago | |
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| New Arrivals and New Ideas | |
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| The AACM School | |
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| Performing and Self-Determination | |
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| Cultural Nationalism in Postmodern Transition | |
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| Americans in Paris | |
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| Conciving the World Audience | |
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| Le Nouveau Paris Noir: Collectivity, Competition, and Excitement | |
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| The Politics of Culture: Black Power and May 1968 | |
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| Die Emanzipation: The Rise of European Free Improvisation | |
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| Homecoming | |
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| The AACM'S Next Wave | |
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| More from the Midwest: The Black Artists Group | |
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| New Elbows on the Table: The AACM's Second Wave | |
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| Ten Years After: The Association Comes of AGe | |
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| The AACM in New York | |
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| Migration and Invasion | |
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| Europe and the Lofts | |
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| Beyond a Binary: The AACM and the Crisis in Criticism | |
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| Diversity and Its Discontents: New American Music after the Jazz Age | |
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| The New Regime in Chicago | |
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| Generational Shifts in the Collective | |
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| The Two Cultures and a New Chapter | |
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| Form and Funding: Philanthropy and Black Music in the 1970s Strains, Swirls, and Splits | |
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| Strains, Swirls, and Splits | |
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| Into the Third Decade | |
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| The 1980s: Canons and Heterophony | |
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| Great Black Music: The Local and the Global | |
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| Leading the Third Wave: The New Women of the AACM | |
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| Transition and Reflections | |
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| New York in Transition | |
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| Chicago in Reflection | |
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| J'ai deux amours | |
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| After | |
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| The Way of the Arranger | |
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| The Individual | |
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| The Book | |
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| Expansion and Sacrifice | |
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| Boxing with Tradition | |
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| Regrets | |
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| Survival | |
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| Contemplating the Post-jazz Continuum | |
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| Atmospheres | |
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| Futures | |
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| List of Interviews Conducted by the Author | |
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| Selected AACM Recordings | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |