Noted jazz scholar, biographer, and critic Stuart Nicholson has
written an entertaining and enlightening consideration of the music’s
global past, present, and future. Jazz’s emergence on the world scene
coincided with America’s rise as a major global power. The uniqueness of
jazz’s origins—America’s singularly original gift of art to the world,
developed by African Americans—adds a level of complexity to any
appreciation of jazz’s global presence. In this volume, Nicholson covers
such diverse and controversial topics as jazz in the iPod musical
economy, issues of globalization and authenticity, jazz and American
exceptionalism, jazz as colonial tip of the sword, global
interpretation, and the limits of jazz as a genre. Nicholson caps the
volume with fascinating and anecdote-rich discussions of jazz as a form
of “modernism” in the twentieth century, the history of jazz fads (such
as the cakewalk) that elicited very different reactions among American
and European audiences, and a hearty defense of Paul Whiteman and his
efforts to legitimize jazz as art.
Stuart Nicholson has written a
thought-provoking and opinionated work that should equally engage and
enrage all manner of jazz lovers, scholars, and aficionados.
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