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Author Reddan, James

Title The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (515 p.)
Series Routledge Music Companions Ser
Routledge Music Companions Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Historical Perspectives -- 1 "The Frivolous, Scantily Clad 'Jazzing Flapper,' Irresponsible and Undisciplined": Jazz as a Feminine Domain -- Introduction -- The Musicians' Union of Australia -- The Modern Girl and Jazz -- Note -- References -- 2 "I've Got the Haitian Blues": Mamie Desdunes and the Gendered Inflections of the Common Wind -- Introduction -- Locating Mamie Desdunes in Storyville
The Latin Tinge and the Haitian Diaspora -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Lil Hardin Armstrong and Helen Joyner: The Forgotten Patrons of Jazz -- Author Note -- Lil Hardin Armstrong -- Helen Joyner -- Notes -- References -- 4 Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject in Jazz in the 1920s -- Introduction -- Historical Precedents -- Jazz and Heteronormativity in the Jazz Age -- Ma Rainey-Queering the Mother of the Blues -- Gladys Bentley-A Cross-Dressing Performer in a White, Heteronormative Culture -- Josephine Baker-A "Threat" to the Viennese Culture -- Conclusion -- References
5 Black Against The Stave: Black Modern Girls in British Interwar Jazz -- The "Apotheosis of Jazz": Blackbirds of 1926 -- Setting the Stage -- Performing Masks and Playing Roles -- Performing Black Bodies -- Florence Mills as a Role Model -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 6 Trumpet Men: Performances of Masculinity in Jazz -- The Trumpet and Jazz Masculinity -- "Masculine" and "Feminine" Instruments and Jazz as Competition -- #MeToo -- Two Trumpet Men -- Ready for Freddie -- The 5th Power -- Flash of the Spirit -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
7 Hard Bop Cool Pose: Bebop, the Blues, and Masculinity in the Music of Lee Morgan -- Jazz and Gender -- Bebop and the Blues -- Badness and Hard Bop Sonic Cool Pose -- Is Jazz Still Cool? -- Notes -- References -- 8 Toward a Feminist Understanding of Jazz Curatorship -- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz -- Nancy Wilson's Jazz Profiles -- LaDonna Smith's the Improvisor -- Terri Lyne Carrington's Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 The Girl in the Other Room: Generating New Open Knowledge for the Women of Jazz -- Introduction
A Relational Cartography of the Jazz Community -- Gendering the Network -- Visualizing Gender Asymmetries -- New Kinds of Biographies -- The International Sweethearts of Rhythm Case -- Notes -- References -- 10 The Rise of Queermisia in Jazz: Medicalization, Legislation, and Its Effects -- Aaron Payne -- Gladys Bentley -- Billy Strayhorn -- Notes -- References -- 11 Constructing a Diverse and Inclusive Jazz Tradition: A Uchronic Narrative -- Introduction -- Utopia and Uchronia -- Uchronic Method -- Case Study: A Uchronic Narrative of Jazz in Graz -- Conclusion -- References
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Part 2 Identity and Culture
Form Electronic book
Author Herzig, Monika
Kahr, Michael
ISBN 9781000591484
1000591484