Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century : Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century / by Beuttler, Bill

Subjects: “…Jazz Social aspects United States History 21st century.…”
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Postliterary America : from bagel shop jazz to micropoetries / by Damon, Maria, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Jewish entertainer as cultural lightning rod: the case of Lenny Bruce -- Jazz-Jews, jive, and gender: the ethnic politics of jazz argot -- Triangulated desire and tactical silences in the Beat hipscape: Bob Kaufman and others -- Displaysias: writing social science and ethnicity in Gertrude Stein and certain others -- Imp/penetrable archive: Adeena Karasick's Wall of Sound -- Kinetic exultations: postliterary poetry, counterperformance, and micropoetries -- When the Nuyoricans came to town: (ex)changing poetics -- Avant-garde or border guard: (Latino) identity in poetry -- Loneliness, lyric, ethnography: some discourses on/of the divided self -- Poetries, micropoetries, micropoetics: elegy on the outskirts -- Electronic poetics assay: diaspora, silliness and-'gender'.…”

50 Years at the Village Vanguard : Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra / by Lisik, Dave, Allen, Eric 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Presenting the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra -- Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra -- The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: sixteen as one -- Thad -- Mel -- The music of Bob Brookmeyer -- The music of Jim McNeely -- Riding the bus: life on the road -- Solo space: the small group within a big band -- A legacy of composition -- The 50th anniversary collection -- The Village Vanguard -- Just like on the records: the official discography -- And the band -- By the numbers.…”
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Crossing bar lines : the politics and practices of black musical space / by Williams, James Gordon, 1970-

Subjects: “…Jazz 2001-2010 History and criticism.…”
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Billie Holiday : essays on the artistry and legacy /

Table of Contents: “…: tragedy, autobiography and reassessment / Anna Maria Barry -- Merging artists : the legacy of Motown's Lady sings the blues / Claudius Stemmler -- "Owning" Billie Holiday in several representative jazz poems / William Levine -- Brigitte loves Billie : channeling Holiday in Domino (1988) / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Seeing is believing? …”
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Divine blue light (for John Coltrane) / by Alexander, Will

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Katrina's Imprint : race and vulnerability in America /

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The habit of art : best stories from the Indiana University fiction workshop /

Table of Contents: “…In the doorway of Rhee's jazz joint / D. Winston Brown --…”
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The tradition / by Brown, Jericho

Table of Contents: “…Meditations at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park --…”
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After 9/11 : leading political thinkers about the world, the U.S. and themselves : 17 conversations / by Endler, Tobias

Table of Contents: “…"A blues man in the life of the mind, and a jazz man in the world of ideas" /…”
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Civic engagement in the wake of Katrina /

Table of Contents: “…Interview with Don Marshall, executive director of the New Orleans jazz and heritage festival foundation /…”
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For dear life / by Wallace, Ronald

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Best music writing 2010 /

Table of Contents: “…Stompin' at The Grand Terrace : excerpts from a jazz memoir in verse /…”

Manhattan's musical heritage / by Preston, Tara

Table of Contents: “…Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley -- The era of big band and modern jazz -- Greenwich Village and the evolution of American music -- Contemporary popular music in Manhattan.…”
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The Alkalinity of Bottled Water / by Xaba, Makhosazana

Table of Contents: “…; Our hill; Part 2; Welcome; Speaking of hearts; Like this horse; Touch; To be Young, Lesbian and Black; Chasing; It shouldn't matter; Dance with me; Counting trees in July; My jazz; The muffin-top moon; Not yet Uhuru…”
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Poetics of visibility in the contemporary Arab American Novel / by Naous, Mazen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Poetics of Visibility, Visible Poetics -- The Disease as Queer Cure: Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War -- Blue Notes and Accented Rhythms: Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz -- Sign after Sign: Mohja Kahf's The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf -- Anagrams of Identity: Laila Halaby's Once in a Promised Land -- Reframing Infidelity: Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent -- Conclusion: Arab American Polyphonics.…”
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21st century perspectives on music, technology, and culture : listening spaces /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: listening in on the 21st Century -- The scream and other tales: listening for Detroit Radio history with the vertical file -- 'On tape': cassette culture in Edinburgh and Glasgow now -- Radio in transit: satellite technology, cars, and the evolution of musical genres -- The internet and the death of jazz: race, improvisation, and the crisis of community -- A brief consideration of the hip-hop biopic -- Love sreams -- A case for musical privacy -- Digital music and public Ggods -- The preservation paradox -- Headphones are the new walls: music in the workplace in the digital age -- Researching the mobile phone ringtone: towards and beyond the ringtone dialectic.…”
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Road Trip. by Hanley, Mary Stone

Table of Contents: “…AllyThe Conservative -- Womanâ#x80;#x99;s Home -- Crossroads -- The Old Tree in Charleston -- Colonial Composition -- IV -- Remembering Celie -- Untouched -- Meanwhile, I Harvest -- Bequests -- Biblical Hot Topics -- Riffing off the Jazz Violinist -- Ainâ#x80;#x99;t No Safe Spaces Here -- Generations -- Cosmic Journey…”
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Sounds like London : 100 years of black music in the capital / by Bradley, Lloyd

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Starship Tahiti : poems / by Lamson, Brandon Dean

Table of Contents: “…Singer -- Pit bull training -- Storming the warehouse -- Evidence -- Buddha's robes -- White power -- Finding Lola Savannah -- Knights of fidelity -- Mud man plays the Copenhagen Jazz Fest -- Portland bardo -- Rescue divers -- Starship Tahiti -- The prophecy of Miss Branch -- Crazy Horse & bondage -- Dark magus -- Cannibal headdress -- Irises -- Billie Holiday sings at the Starlight Inn -- Filming the explosion -- Tropicana drag -- Sonar -- Psalm of Sambo -- Church burning in southern Maryland -- Strange fruit on Bourbon Street -- Metallica burns on the altar of the viking rockstar -- 'Bama barbershop.…”
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