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| Introduction | |
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| From Ragtime To Jazz In The 1910S | |
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| A modernizing society | |
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| Ragtime | |
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| Black musicians and the city | |
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| James Reese Europe and nightlife | |
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| New Orleans | |
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| World War I. | |
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| Hot And Sweet, White And Black: The Jazz Age | |
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| The first jazz vogue of the 1920s | |
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| Post-Victorian mass leisure | |
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| Debate between modernists and traditionalists | |
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| African-American communities and jazz | |
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| Musicians and the color line. | |
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| The Great Depression, The "Common Man," And The Swing Era | |
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| Growth of the music and the business | |
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| Economic impact of the depression | |
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| Political reform and the culture of the thirties | |
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| The swing boom in New Deal context. | |
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| Jazz Goes To War | |
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| Economic upheavals after 1939 in society and popular music | |
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| Music on the home front and overseas | |
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| Evolution of musical tastes | |
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| Dixieland and bebop | |
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| Critics, musicians, and the postwar temper. | |
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| Cool Jazz, Hard Bop, Affluence, And Anxiety | |
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| Avant-garde music for the atomic age | |
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| Jazz and the cold war | |
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| Musicians and deviance | |
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| California cool | |
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| Accelerating change in the late fifties. | |
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| "We Insist": Jazz Inside And Outside The 1960S | |
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| Jazz and the civil rights movement | |
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| The avant-garde and Black Power | |
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| The rock revolution and the apparent decline of jazz. | |
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| Fusion And Fragmentation: Jazz At The End Of The American Century | |
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| Fusion and funk in the early seventies | |
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| Jazz, country, and the politics of culture | |
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| Conservatism and "classic" jazz in the eighties | |
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| Race, class, and jazz into the 1990s. | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Index | |