Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies

Published by Duke University Press 2008

Big Ears

Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies

Edited by: Nichole T. Rustin , Sherrie Tucker , Ronald Radano and Josh Kun

In the series Refiguring American Music

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389224

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About this book

Collection of essays on the role of gender in jazz studies.

Author / Editor information

Nichole T. Rustin is completing a book titled Jazz Men: Race, Masculine Difference, and the Emotions in 1950s America.

Sherrie Tucker is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“Big Ears is a breath of fresh air in contemporary jazz studies. Whereas the field has exploded during the last several years, this is the first volume specifically devoted to new work on gender and jazz. The essays here are wide-ranging in form, content, and method. They pay admirable attention to jazz across media (in film, concerts, recordings) and in international, not just U.S., contexts.”—Gayle Wald, author of Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

“Opening new vistas upon the study of jazz in the humanities, Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker guide a vibrant and profound conversation at the nexus of performance studies, film and literary studies, gender studies, and many other fields. The unprecedented range and scope of this essential new collection affirm the centrality of improvisation to our understanding of culture.”—George E. Lewis, author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History
SEPARATED AT ‘‘BIRTH’’ : SINGING AND THE HISTORY OF JAZZ Lara Pellegrinelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
WITH LOVIE AND LIL: REDISCOVERING TWO CHICAGO PIANISTS OF THE 1920s Jeffrey Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
GENDER, JAZZ, AND THE POPULAR FRONT Monica Hairston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
‘‘THE BATTLE OF THE SAXES’’ : GENDER, DANCE BANDS, AND BRITISH NATIONALISM IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Christina Baade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
IDENTITY FOR SALE: GLENN MILLER, WYNTON MARSALIS, AND CULTURAL REPLAY IN MUSIC Tracy McMullen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
PART II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance
FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE PAVEMENT: A GEOPOLITICS OF BLACK DANCE Jayna Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
PERVERSE HYSTERICS: THE NOISY CRI OF LES DIABOLIQUES Julie Dawn Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
‘‘BORN OUT OF JAZZ . . . YET EMBRACING ALL MUSIC’’ : RACE, GENDER, AND TECHNOLOGY IN GEORGE RUSSELL’S LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT Eric Porter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
‘‘BUT THIS MUSIC IS MINE ALREADY!’’ : ‘‘WHITE WOMAN’’ AS JAZZ COLLECTOR IN THE FILM NEW ORLEANS (1947) Sherrie Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
FITTING THE PART Ingrid Monson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
PART III Reimagining Jazz Representations
‘‘BETTER A JAZZ ALBUM THAN LIPSTICK’’ (LIEBER JAZZPLATTE ALS LIPPENSTIFT ) : THE 1956 JAZZ PODIUM SERIES REVEALS IMAGES OF JAZZ AND GENDER IN POSTWAR GERMANY Ursel Schlicht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
EXCLUSION, OPENNESS, AND UTOPIA IN BLACK MALE PERFORMANCE AT THE WORLD STAGE JAZZ JAM SESSIONS João H. Costa Vargas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
‘‘IT TAKES TWO PEOPLE TO CONFIRM THE TRUTH’’ : THE JAZZ FICTION OF SHERLEY ANN WILLIAMS AND TONI CADE BAMBARA Farah Jasmine Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
‘‘BLOW, MAN, BLOW!’’: REPRESENTING GENDER, WHITE PRIMITIVES, AND JAZZ MELODRAMA THROUGH A YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN Nichole T. Rustin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
THE GENDERED JAZZ AESTHETICS OF THAT MAN OF MINE : THE INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM AND INDEPENDENT BLACK SOUND FILM Kristin McGee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 472
Illustrations
- Other: 19 photographs, 1 table, 4 figures

eBook

Published: November 7, 2008
ISBN: 9780822389224