Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies » (New Edition)

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.

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

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS....................vii
INTRODUCTION Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker....................1
SEPARATED AT "BIRTH": SINGING AND THE HISTORY OF JAZZ Lara Pellegrinelli....................31
WITH LOVIE AND LIL: REDISCOVERING TWO CHICAGO PIANISTS OF THE 1920s Jeffrey Taylor....................48
GENDER, JAZZ, AND THE POPULAR FRONT Monica Hairston....................64
"THE BATTLE OF THE SAXES": GENDER, DANCE BANDS, AND BRITISH NATIONALISM IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Christina Baade....................90
IDENTITY FOR SALE: GLENN MILLER, WYNTON MARSALIS, AND CULTURAL REPLAY IN MUSIC Tracy McMullen....................129
FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE PAVEMENT: A GEOPOLITICS OF BLACK DANCE Jayna Brown....................157
PERVERSE HYSTERICS: THE NOISY CRI OF LES DIABOLIQUES Julie Dawn Smith....................180
"BORN OUT OF JAZZ ... YET EMBRACING ALL MUSIC": RACE, GENDER, AND TECHNOLOGY IN GEORGE RUSSELL'S LYDIAN CHROMATIC CONCEPT Eric Porter....................210
"BUT THIS MUSIC IS MINE ALREADY!": "WHITE WOMAN" AS JAZZ COLLECTOR IN THE FILM NEW ORLEANS (1947) Sherrie Tucker....................235
FITTING THE PART Ingrid Monson....................267
"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....................291
EXCLUSION, OPENNESS, AND UTOPIA IN BLACK MALE PERFORMANCE AT THE WORLD STAGE JAZZ JAM SESSIONS João H. Costa Vargas....................320
"IT TAKES TWO PEOPLE TO CONFIRM THE TRUTH": THE JAZZ FICTION OF SHERLEY ANN WILLIAMS AND TONI CADE BAMBARA Farah Jasmine Griffin....................348
"BLOW, MAN, BLOW!": REPRESENTING GENDER, WHITE PRIMITIVES, AND JAZZ MELODRAMA THROUGH A YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN Nichole T. Rustin....................361
THE GENDERED JAZZ AESTHETICS OF THAT MAN OF MINE: THE INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM AND INDEPENDENT BLACK SOUND FILM Kristin McGee....................393
BIBLIOGRAPHY....................423
CONTRIBUTORS....................435
INDEX....................441