@article{295321,
      author = {Evans, Nicholas M.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/295321},
      title = {Writing jazz : race, nationalism, and modern culture in  the 1920s /},
      publisher = {Garland Pub.,},
      abstract = {This study examines how early writers of jazz criticism  (such as Gilbert Seldes and Carl Van Vechten) and  literature (F. Scott Fitzgerald and Langston Hughes)--as  well as "jazz" performers and composers (such as Al Jolson,  Sophie Tucker, and George Gershwin)--associated the music  directly with questions about identity (racial, ethnic,  national, gendered, and sexual) and with historical  developments like industrialization. Going beyond the study  of melody, harmony, and rhythm, this book's  interdisciplinary approach takes seriously the cultural  beliefs about jazz that inspired interracial contact,  moralistic panic, bohemian slumming, visions of American  democracy, and much more. Detailed textual analysis of  fiction, nonfiction, film, and musical performance  illustrates the complexity of these cultural beliefs in the  1920s and also shows their survival to the present day.},
      recid = {295321},
      pages = {viii, 321 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2000},
}