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Writing Jazz: Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture)
Writing Jazz Race Nationalism and Modern Culture in the 1920s - Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture
Author: Nicholas Evans
This study examines how early writers of jazz criticism (such as Gilbert Seldes and Carl Van Vechten) and literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes)--as well as "jazz" performers and composers (such as Al Jolson, Sophie Tucker, and George Gershwin)--associated the music directly with questions about identity (racial, ethnic, national, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780815322269
ISBN-10: 0815322267
Publication Date: 9/21/2000
Pages: 321
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
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