This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U. S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Chapter One Louis Armstrong: Exuberant Jazz Legend & Complex Cultural Diplomat
Chapter Two Duke Ellington: Elegant US Jazz Exceptionalist Symbol & Regal Transnational Hetero-Sexual
Chapter Three Miles Davis: Jazz, Blues, Rock, Funk, & Hip Hop Border Crosser
Conclusion