Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Note on Reference Abbreviations; 1 Ellington the Entertainer: Pageantry and Prophecy in Duke Ellington's Films; 2 Marketing to the Middlebrow: Reconsidering Ellingtonia, the Legacy of Early Ellington Criticism, and the Idea of a "Serious" Jazz Composer; 3 "Art or Debauchery?": The Reception of Ellington in the U.K.; 4 "Nobody Was Looking": The Unparalleled Jazz Piano Legacy of Duke Ellington

5 "People Wrap Their Lunches in Them": Duke Ellington and His Written Music Manuscripts6 The Moor's Revenge: The Politics of Such Sweet Thunder; 7 Duke Ellington in the LP Era; 8 Authentic Synthetic Hybrid: Ellington's Concepts of Africa and Its Music; 9 "The Mother of All Albums": Revisiting Ellington's A Drum Is a Woman; Index