Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-249), discography/videography (p. 251-252) , and index.
1. The poetics of jazz : from symbolic to semiotic -- 2. The rehistoricizing of jazz : Chicago's "Urban Bushmen" and the problem of representation -- 3. Performing identity : jazz autobiography and the politics of literary improvisation -- 4. "Space is the place" : jazz, voice, and resistance -- 5. Nice work if you can get it : women in jazz / (with Gillian Siddall) -- 6. Capitulating to barbarism : jazz and/as popular culture -- 7. Up for grabs : the ethicopolitical authority of jazz.
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An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.