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Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," The Jazz Cadence of American Culture offers a wide range of eloquent stateme

A persuasive appreciation of what jazz is and of how it has permeated and enriched the culture of America

Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

A swinging cultural history of the instrument that in many ways defined a century The twentieth century was barely under way when the grandson of a slave picked

From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolu