Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical
terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or
as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the
cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists,
filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and photographers.
Representing Jazz explores the "other" history of jazz created by
these artists, a history that tells us as much about the meaning of
the music as do the many books that narrate the lives of musicians
or describe their recordings. Krin Gabbard has gathered essays by
distinguished writers from a variety of fields. They provide
engaging analyses of films such as Round Midnight, Bird, Mo' Better
Blues, Cabin in the Sky, and Jammin' the Blues; the writings of
Eudora Welty and Dorothy Baker; the careers of the great lindy
hoppers of the 1930s and 1940s; Mura Dehn's extraordinary
documentary on jazz dance; the jazz photography of William Claxton;
painters of the New York School; the traditions of jazz
autobiography; and the art of "vocalese." The contributors to this
volume assess the influence of extramusical sources on our
knowledge of jazz and suggest that the living contexts of the music
must be considered if a more sophisticated jazz scholarship is ever
to evolve. Transcending the familiar patterns of jazz history and
criticism, Representing Jazz looks at how the music actually has
been heard and felt at different levels of American culture. With
its companion anthology, Jazz Among the Discourses, this volume
will enrich and transform the literature of jazz studies. Its
provocative essays will interest both aficionados and potential
jazz fans.Contributors. Karen Backstein, Leland H. Chambers, Robert
P. Crease, Krin Gabbard, Frederick Garber, Barry K. Grant, Mona
Hadler, Christopher Harlos, Michael Jarrett, Adam Knee, Arthur
Knight, James Naremore
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