Review of Eric Porter. 2002. What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press
For too long, jazz writers, including the handful of academics who can legitimately be called ‘Jazz scholars,” promoted myths of the music’s autonomy. According to this myth, the identity of the musicians, the venues where they performed, and what they said off the bandstand were of little or no im...
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Columbia University Libraries
2001-02-01
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| Series: | Current Musicology |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/4888 |