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Author Sandke, Randy

Title Where the dark and the light folks meet : race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz / Randall Sandke
Published Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 p.)
Series Studies in jazz ; 60
Studies in jazz ; no. 60.
Contents Is jazz about music anymore? -- The activist jazz writers -- Good intentions and bad history -- What gets left out -- The road to radicalism -- Radical ideas and retro music -- The biggest myth of all -- It's strictly business -- Copyrights : accounting without accountability -- Show me the money -- Is everything about race? -- Tomorrow is the question
Summary Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination, or is it more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture? This book does not question that jazz was created and largely driven by African Americans, but rather posits that black culture has been more open to outside influences than most commentators are likely to admit. The majority of jazz writers, past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-258) and index
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Subject Jazz -- History and criticism
Jazz -- Political aspects -- United States
Music and race -- United States
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Jazz.
Jazz
Music and race
Politik
Rassenkonflikt
Jazz
Jazz.
Ethnische Beziehung.
United States
USA.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020740367
ISBN 9780810869905
081086990X
9781282480339
1282480332
9786612480331
6612480335