Contents
- Chapter 1 Chapter One- The Culture of Jazz and Jazz as Critical Culture
- Chapter 2 Chapter Two- Music and Anthropology
- Chapter 3 Chapter Three- Teaching the Culture of Jazz
- Chapter 4 Chapter Four- Africa as a Metaphor of Authenticity in Jazz
- Chapter 5 Chapter Five- The Spread of American Music to the International Scene
- Chapter 6 Chapter Six- Jazz and Its Impact on European Classical Music
- Chapter 7 Chapter Seven- Creole Performance and the Mass
- Chapter 8 Chapter Eight- Jazz in Rochester in the Context of the Wider Scene
- Chapter 9 Chapter Nine - Stereotype and Reality: Social and Cultural Characteristics of Members of the Down Beat Hall of Fame
- Chapter 10 Chapter Ten -Laughin' Louie: An analysis of Louis Armstrong's Record and Its Relationship to African-American Musical Humor
- Chapter 11 Chapter Eleven - Dizzy, Humor, and Subversion of Accepted Reality
- Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve - From the Cotton Club to the Cathedral
- Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen - Boppers and Moldy Figs: A Tale of Two Cultures
- Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen -The Force Primeval: The Image of Jazz in American Literature
- Chapter 15 Chapter Fifteen - Puttin' It On
- Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen - Did They Make the Scene or Did the Scene Make Them?: Expatriate Jazz Musicians in Europe
- Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen - Close Enough for Jazz: Humor and Jazz Reality
- Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen - He Sang Away My Blues
- Chapter 19 Chapter Nineteen - Music and Emotion
- Chapter 20 Chapter Twenty - The Good Die Young- The Tragedy of the Jazz Life
- Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty-one-
- Conclusion