Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies*

Abstract

Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker 1 Part I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History Separated at Birth: Singing and the History of Jazz / Lara Pellegrinelli 31 With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor 48 Gender, Jazz, and the Popular Front / Monica Hairston 64 Battle of the Saxes: Gender, Dance Bands, and British Nationalism in the Second World War / Christina Baade 90 Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music / Tracy McMullen 129 Part II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance From the Point of View of the Pavement: A Geopolitics of Black Dance / Jayna Brown 157 Perverse Hysterics: The Noisy Cri of Les Diaboliques / Julie Dawn Smith 180 Born Out of Jazz . . . Yet Embracing All Music: Race, Gender, and Technology in George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept / Eric Porter 210 But This Music is Mine Already! : Woman as Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947) / Sherrie Tucker 235 Fitting the Part / Ingrid Monson 267 Part III. Reimagining Jazz Representations Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick (Lieber Jazzplatte Als Lippenstift): The 1956 Jazz Podium Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Postwar Germany / Ursel Schlicht 291 Exclusion, Openness, and Utopia in Black Male Performance at the World Stage Jazz Jam Sessions / Joao H. Costa Vargas 320 It Takes Two People to Confirm the Truth: The Jazz Fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara / Farah Jasmine Griffin 348 Blow, Man, Blow!: Representing Gender, White Primitives, and Jazz Melodrama Through A Young Man With A Horn / Nichole T. Rustin 361 The Gendered Jazz Aesthetics of That Man of Man: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film / Kristin McGee 393 Bibliography 423 Contributors 435 Index 441