Can I read Writing Jazz: Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture) on EtoBox?

Writing Jazz: Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Nicholas M. Evans; Jerome Nadelhaft is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Writing Jazz: Race, Nationalism, and Modern Culture in the 1920s (Garland Studies in American Popular History and Culture) about?

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, gendered, and sexual) and with historical developments like industrialization. Going beyond the study of melody, harmony, and rhythm, this book's interdisciplinary approach takes seriously the cultural beliefs about jazz that inspired interracial contact, moralistic panic, bohemian slumming, visions of American democracy, and much more. Detailed textual analysis of fiction, nonfiction, film, and musical performance illustrates the complexity of these cultural beliefs in the 1920s and also shows their survival to the present day.<br> <br> In part, jazz absorbed the U.S. cultural imagination due to the nineteenth-century artistic search for music that would define the national character. To the chagrin of Anglo-Saxon "nativists," jazz ascended as an exemplar of cultural hybridity and pluralism. The writers and entertainers studied in this volu

Author

Nicholas M. Evans; Jerome Nadelhaft

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136712968

Subjects

History, Music, Arts

Updated

2026-03-24