Krin Gabbard is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the editor of the companion volume, Representing Jazz, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: The Jazz Canon and Its Consequences / Krin Gabbard 1Rethinking Jazz History "Moldy Figs" and Modernists: Jazz at War (1942–1946) / Bernard Gendron 31Jazz in Crisis, 1948–1958: Ideology and Representation / Steven B. Elworth 57Other: From Noun to Verb / Nathaniel Mackey 76Historical Context and the Definition of Jazz: Putting More of the History in "Jazz History" / William Howland Kenney 100Oral Histories of Jazz Musicians: The NEA Transcripts as Texts in Context / Burton W. Peretti 117The Media of Memory: The Seductive Menace of Records in Jazz History / Jed Rasula 134Jazz Artists Among the Discourses "Out of Notes": Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis / Robert Walser 165Critical Alchemy: Anthony Braxton and the Imagined Tradition / Ronald M. Radano 189Ephemera Underscored: Writing Around Free Improvisation / John Corbett 217The Essential Context: Jazz and Politics Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style / Eric Lott 243Ascension: Music and the Black Arts Movement / Lorenzo Thomas 256Contributors 275Index 277

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