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Tables of Contents for The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
IX
 
part 1: what is jazz?
3
114
Introduction
3
4
CHAPTER 1 Jazz--The Word
7
25
Alan P. Merriam
Fradley H. Garner
CHAPTER 2 Forward Motion: An Interview with Benny Golson
32
30
Benny Golson
Jim Merod
CHAPTER 3 Repetition as a Figure of Black Culture
62
20
James A. Snead
CHAPTER 4 Black Music as an Art Form
82
20
Olly Wilson
CHAPTER 5 Remembering Thelonious Monk: When the Music Was Happening Then He'd Get Up and Do His Little Dance
102
9
Quincy Troupe
Ben Riley
CHAPTER 6 Improvisation and the Creative Process
111
6
Albert Murray
part 2: one nation under a groove, or, the united states of jazzocracy
117
58
Introduction
117
6
CHAPTER 7 What's "American" About America
123
14
John A. Kouwenhoven
CHAPTER 8 Jazz and the White Critic
137
6
Amiri Baraka
CHAPTER 9 Duke Ellington: "Music Like a Big Hot Pot of Good Gumbo"
143
11
Wynton Marsalis
Robert G. O'Meally
CHAPTER 10 Blues to Be Constitutional: A Long Look at the Wild Wherefores of Our Democratic Lives as Symbolized in the Making of Rhythm and Tune
154
12
Stanley Crouch
CHAPTER 11 The Ellington Programme
166
9
Barry Ulanov
part 3 jazz lines and colors: the sound i saw
175
98
Introduction
175
7
CHAPTER 12 Art History and Black Memory: Toward a "Blues Aesthetic"
182
14
Richard J. Powell
CHAPTER 13 Skyscrapers, Airplanes, and Airmindedness: "The Necessary Angel"
196
28
Ann Douglas
CHAPTER 14 Profiles: Putting Something Over Something Else
224
19
Calvin Tomkins
CHAPTER 15 Celebration
243
21
Sherry Turner DeCarava
CHAPTER 16 Black Visual Intonation
264
5
Arthur Jafa
CHAPTER 17 Improvisation in Jazz
269
4
Bill Evans
part 4 jazz is a dance: jazz art in motion
273
116
Introduction
273
5
CHAPTER 18 Jazz Music in Motion: Dancers and Big Bands
278
20
Jacqui Malone
CHAPTER 19 Characteristics of Negro Expression
298
13
Zora Neale Hurston
CHAPTER 20 African Art and Motion
311
61
Robert Farris Thompson
CHAPTER 21 Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire
372
9
Michael Eric Dyson
CHAPTER 22 "Noise" Taps a Historic Route to Joy
381
8
Margo Jefferson
part 5 tell the story: jazz, history, memory
389
146
Introduction
389
4
CHAPTER 23 Pulp and Circumstance: The Story of Jazz in High Places
393
38
Gerald Early
CHAPTER 24 Jazz and American Culture
431
17
Lawrence W. Levine
CHAPTER 25 The Golden Age, Time Past
448
9
Ralph Ellison
CHAPTER 26 Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style
457
12
Eric Lott
CHAPTER 27 It Jus Be's Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues
469
14
Hazel V. Carby
CHAPTER 28 Constructing the Jazz Tradition
483
30
Scott DeVeaux
CHAPTER 29 Other: From Noun to Verb
513
22
Nathaniel Mackey
part 6 writing the blues, writing jazz
535
94
Introduction
535
5
CHAPTER 30 The Blues as Folk Poetry
540
12
Sterling A. Brown
CHAPTER 31 Richard Wright's Blues
552
11
Ralph Ellison
CHAPTER 32 Preface to "Three Plays"
563
6
August Wilson
CHAPTER 33 The Function of the Heroic Image
569
11
Albert Murray
CHAPTER 34 The Seemingly Eclipsed Window of Form: James Weldon Johnson's Prefaces
580
22
Brent Edwards
CHAPTER 35 Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol
602
27
Nathaniel Mackey
SOURCES
629
4
INDEX
633