New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History »

A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Hot Threshold: A Leftist Writer and the Righteous Cause 23

2 Discovering New Orleans Style: The Writers of the Wax Wing 38

3 A Declaration of Independents: Noncommercial Music and Collector Discology 81

4 Reviving New Orleans Style: What Did Bunk and Ory Say? 111

5 Jazz Schism: The Perils of Intellectualization 142

6 Let the Foul Air Out: The Fun Faction Asserts Itself 182

7 The City That Care Forgot Remembers: The Apotheosis of Jazz in New Orleans 217

Epilogue 259

Notes 261

Bibliography 323

Index 327