Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century / Charles Hiroshi Garrett.

Charles Ives's Four ragtime dances and true American music
Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish tinge
Louis Armstrong and the great migration
Chinatown, whose Chinatown? Defining America's borders with musical orientalism
Sounds of paradise: Hawai'i and the American musical imagination
Conclusion: American music at the turn of a new century.