Queering Kansas City Jazz : Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene [1 ed.] 9781496210326, 9780803262911

The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growt

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Queering Kansas City Jazz : Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene [1 ed.]
9781496210326, 9780803262911

New York City has always been a mecca in the history of jazz, and in many ways the city’s jazz scene is more important n

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The social connotation of jazz in American popular culture has shifted dramatically since its emergence in the early twe

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The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was

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Queering Mestizaje employs theories of postcolonial cultural studies (including performance studies, queer and feminist

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Nat Hentoff, renowned jazz critic, civil liberties activist, and fearless contrarian—"I’m a Jewish atheist civil-li

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Primo capitolo della biografia che lo studioso e narratore afroamericano Stanley Crouch ha dedicato a Charlie Parker, il

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"Here is a comprehensive, richly illustrated account of a crossroads that made it big-- Kansas City. From its earli

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