Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-189) and index.
Contents
From ragtime to jazz in the 1910s -- Hot and sweet, white and black: the jazz age -- The Great Depression, the "common man," and the swing era -- Jazz goes to war -- Cool jazz, hard bop, affluence, and anxiety -- "We insist": jazz inside and outside the 1960s -- Fusion and fragmentation: jazz at the end of the American century.