Literature and Arts B-82: Sayin' Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue

17. Jazz and Race

[Notes: Depository titles may be requested in Hollis, to arrive next day.]

Baraka, Imamu Amiri. Black Music. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML3556 .B15 1980b  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.906.23  

---. Blues People. Edinburgh: Payback Press, 1995.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML3556 .B16 1995 [Harvard Depository] 

---. The Music: Reflections on Jazz and Blues. New York: Morrow, 1987.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.906.24  

Briggs, Ray Anthony. "Memphis Jazz: African American Musicians, Jazz Community and the Politics of Race." Ph. D. Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: 3508.8.M46 B7 2003

Burke, Patrick Lawrence. Come in and Hear the Truth: Jazz and Race on 52nd Street. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3508.8.N5 B87 2008

Crouch, Stanley. Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2006.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML3506 .C75 2006

Dyson, Michael Eric. Open Mike: Reflections on Philosophy, Race, Sex, Culture and Religion. New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2003.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: E185.625 .D97 2003

Ellison, Ralph. Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings. Edited by Robert O'Meally. New York: Modern Library, 2001.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.921  

Gabbard, Krin, ed. Jazz Among the Discourses. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.
Location: Lamont Library, Quad Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML3507 .J36 1995  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.941.26  

Gennari, John. Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and its Critics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3506 .G46 2006 

Gerard, Charley. Jazz in Black and White: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Jazz Community. Westport, Conn.; London: Praeger, 1998.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML3508 .G47 1998bx

Hersch, Charles. Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3508.8.N48 H47 2007

Kenney, William Howland. Chicago jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML3508.8.C5 K46 1993  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.944.25  

---. Jazz on the River. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3508 .K45 2005  
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML3508 .K45 2005  

Marsalis, Wynton. Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2001.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 3987.30.51  

---. Sweet Swing Blues on the Road. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML419.M3 A3 1994  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 3987.30.53  

---. To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road. New York: Random House, 2004.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: ML3795 .M186 2004

Monson, Ingrid. Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Location: Lamont Library; Call Number: ML3508 .M65 2007
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3508 .M65 2007
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: WID-LC ML3508 .M65 2007

Moten, Fred. In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Location: Widener Library; Call Number: E185 .M895 2003  

O'Meally, Robert G., ed. The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Location: Lamont Library, Quad Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML3508 .J38 1998  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.941.27

---. Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday. New York: Arcade Pub., 1991.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML420.H58 O4 1991  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 3279.35.65  
Location: Schlesinger Library; Call Number: Harvard Depository 784 H73o  

O'Meally, Robert G., Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin, ed. Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML3507 .U68 2004  

Panish, Jon. The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1997.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library; Call Number: ML3849 .P27 1997  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.968.70  

Peretti, Burton W. The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
Location: Lamont Library, Widener Library, Quad Library; Call Number: ML3508 .P45 1992  
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: Mus 177.969.76  

Rustin, Nichole T. "Mingus Fingers: Charles Mingus, Black Masculinity, and Postwar Jazz Culture." Ph. D. diss., New York University, 1999.
Location: Loeb Music Library; Call Number: ML410.M6795 R87 1999 [Harvard Depository]

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