Beschreibung:
Traces the acceptance of jazz as an expression of American culture. Court Carney takes readers back to the 1920s and early 1930s to describe how jazz musicians navigated the rocky racial terrain of the music business, and reveals how the new media of the timethe phonograph, radio, and filmplayed a key role in accelerating its diffusion as a modernist art form. The first history of jazz to emphasize the connections between these disseminating technologies and specific locales, the book focuses on four citiesNew Orleans, New York, Chicago, and Los Angelesto show how each city produced a distinctive style of jazz.