Antagonistic cooperation in Alabama -- Context and definition -- Academic lead sheet -- Art as such -- Riffing at Mrs. Jack's Place -- Made in America: the achievement of Duke Ellington -- Me and old Duke -- Me and old Uncle Billy and the American atmosphere -- The HNIC who he -- Soul brothers abroad -- Freedom bound U.S.A. -- The good old boys down yonder -- The "reconstruction" of Robert Penn Warren -- Louis Armstrong in his own world -- Manhattan in the twenties -- The blue steel, rawhide, patent leather implications of fairy tales -- An all purpose, all-American literary intellectual.
