Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography - Paperback
Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography - Paperback
Description
by Aaron Lefkovitz (Author)
This book examines Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis as distinctively global symbols of threatening and nonthreatening black masculinity. It centers them in debates over U.S. cultural exceptionalism, noting how they have been part of the definition of jazz as a jingoistic and exclusively American form of popular culture.
Author Biography
Aaron E. Lefkovitz teaches U.S. history at Harold Washington College, The City Colleges of Chicago, and DePaul University.
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