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Outside and Inside - Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography (Paperback)
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Outside and Inside - Race and Identity in White Jazz Autobiography (Paperback)
Series: American Made Music Series
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Outside and Inside: Representations of Race and Identity in White
Jazz Autobiography is the first full-length study of key
autobiographies of white jazz musicians. White musicians from a
wide range of musical, social, and economic backgrounds looked to
black music and culture as the model on which to form their
personal identities and their identities as professional musicians.
Their accounts illustrate the triumphs and failures of jazz
interracialism. As they describe their relationships with black
musicians who are their teachers and peers, white jazz
autobiographers display the contradictory attitudes of reverence
and entitlement, and deference and insensitivity that remain part
of the white response to black culture to the present day. Outside
and Inside features insights into the development of jazz styles
and culture in the urban meccas of twentieth-century jazz in New
Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Reva Marin considers
the autobiographies of sixteen white male jazz instrumentalists,
including renowned swing-era bandleaders Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw,
and Charlie Barnet; reed instrumentalists Mezz Mezzrow, Bob Wilber,
and Bud Freeman; trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Wingy Manone;
guitarist Steve Jordan; pianists Art Hodes and Don Asher;
saxophonist Art Pepper; guitarist and bandleader Eddie Condon; and
New Orleans-style clarinetist Tom Sancton. While critical race
theory informs this work, Marin argues that viewing these texts
simply through the lens of white privilege does not do justice to
the kind of sustained relationships with black music and culture
described in the accounts of white jazz autobiographers. She both
insists upon the value of insider perspectives and holds the texts
to rigorous scrutiny, while embracing an expansive interpretation
of white involvement in black culture. Marin opens new paths for
study of race relations and racial, ethnic, and gender identity
formation in jazz studies.
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