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Author Klotz, Kelsey

Title Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (321 p.)
Contents Cover -- Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buying the Myth -- 1. "Any Jackass Can Swing": Sounds in Black and White -- 2. Professors, Housewives, and Playboys: The Jazz Converts -- 3. (In)Visible Men: White Recognition and Trust -- 4. "We Want to Play in the South": Brubeck's Southern Strategy -- 5. Negotiating Jewish Identity in The Gates of Justice -- Conclusion: Evading Whiteness -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary In Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness, author Kelsey Klotz considers how Dave Brubeck, a pivotal jazz musician and public figure, represents manifestations of whiteness in mid-century America
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780197525098
0197525091