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Author Sandke, Randy.

Title Where the dark and the light folks meet : race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz / Randall Sandke.

Publication Info. Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in jazz ; 60
Studies in jazz ; no. 60.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.
Contents Is jazz about music anymore? -- The activist jazz writers -- Good intentions and bad history -- What gets left out -- The road to radicalism -- Radical ideas and retro music -- The biggest myth of all -- It's strictly business -- Copyrights : accounting without accountability -- Show me the money -- Is everything about race? -- Tomorrow is the question.
Summary Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of segregation and discrimination, or is it more properly understood as the juncture of a wide variety of influences under the broader umbrella of American culture? This book does not question that jazz was created and largely driven by African Americans, but rather posits that black culture has been more open to outside influences than most commentators are likely to admit. The majority of jazz writers, past.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Jazz -- History and criticism.
Jazz.
Jazz -- Political aspects -- United States.
Jazz -- Political aspects.
United States.
Music and race -- United States.
Music and race.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sandke, Randy. Where the dark and the light folks meet. Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2010 9780810866522 (DLC) 2009037977 (OCoLC)436387250
ISBN 9780810869905 (electronic book)
081086990X (electronic book)
9781282480339
1282480332
9780810866522 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0810866528 (cloth ; alkaline paper)