1. Introduction: A New Musical Balance -- 2. Chicago as Aesthetic Center -- 3. Musical Assertions of Black Identity -- 4. New Musical Convergences: Paris and New York -- 5. Defining a Black Vanguard Aesthetic -- 6. Black Experimentalism as Spectacle -- Epilogue: Jazz Recast -- Appendix A: Picture Titles of Compositions Cited -- Appendix B: Recordings Cited/Anthony Braxton on Record