Jazz and American culture

Introduction : A brief history of jazz in American culture: five moments from Jim Crow to George Floyd / Michael Borshuk

Part I. Elements of sound and style. Improvisation / Ajay Heble ; Scat and vocalese / Chris Tonelli ; Jazz as intertextual expression / Charles Hersch ; How to watch jazz : the importance of performance / Michael Borshuk

Part II. Aesthetic movements. Jazz age Harlem / Fiona I. B. Ngô ; "Hard times don't worry me" : the blues in Black music and literature in the 1930s / Steven C. Tracy ; A fool for beauty : modernism and the racial semiotics of crooning / Michael Coyle ; Free jazz, critical performativity, and 1968 / Michael Hrebeniak

Part III. Cultural contexts. Jazz slang, jazz speak / Amor Kohli ; Jazz cool / Joel Dinerstein ; The institutionalization of jazz / Dale Chapman ; Jazz abroad / Jürgen E. Grandt

Part IV. Literary genres. Orchestrating chaos : othering and the politics of contingency in jazz fiction / Herman Beavers ; "Wail, wop" : jazz poetry on the page and in performance / Jessica E. Teague ; Jazz criticism and liner notes / Timothy Gray ; Jazz autobiography / Daniel Stein ; Jazz and the American songbook / Katherine Williams

Part V. Images and screens. "The sound I saw" : jazz and visual culture / Amy Abugo Ongiri ; Love, theft, and transcendence : jazz and narrative cinema / Krin Gabbard ; Reinstating televisual histories of jazz / Nicolas Pillai ; Documentary jazz/Jazz documentary / Will Finch ; Two dark rooms : Jazz and Photography / Benjamin Cawthra.