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Table of Contents

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Where Did the Word Jazz Come From?.
2. Definitions.
3. Analyzing Jazz.
4. Where Did the Music Come From?.
5. Responses to Early Jazz, 1919 to 1934.
6. African American and the Swing Era.
7. Reactions to Bebop.
8. The Drug Problem.
9. Race Politics and Jazz in the 1950s and 1960s.
10. Avant-garde and Fusion. Two Opposites? 1960 to the Present.
11. Traditionalism, Revivalism, and the "Young Lions," 1980 to the Present.
12. Crossing Boundaries, 1980 to the Present.
Bibliography.
Permissions.
Index.