Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker 1

Part I. Rooting Gender in Jazz History

Separated at "Birth": Singing and the History of Jazz / Lara Pellegrinelli 31

With Lovie and Lil: Rediscovering Two Chicago Pianists of the 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor 48

Gender, Jazz, and the Popular Front / Monica Hairston 64

"The Battle of the Saxes": Gender, Dance Bands, and British Nationalism in the Second World War / Christina Baade 90

Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music / Tracy McMullen 129

Part II. Improvising Gender: Embodiment and Performance

From the Point of View of the Pavement: A Geopolitics of Black Dance / Jayna Brown 157

Perverse Hysterics: The Noisy Cri of Les Diaboliques / Julie Dawn Smith 180

"Born Out of Jazz . . . Yet Embracing All Music": Race, Gender, and Technology in George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept / Eric Porter 210

"But This Music is Mine Already!" : "White Woman" as Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947) / Sherrie Tucker 235

Fitting the Part / Ingrid Monson 267

Part III. Reimagining Jazz Representations

"Better a Jazz Album Than Lipstick" (Lieber Jazzplatte Als Lippenstift): The 1956 Jazz Podium Series Reveals Images of Jazz and Gender in Postwar Germany / Ursel Schlicht 291

Exclusion, Openness, and Utopia in Black Male Performance at the World Stage Jazz Jam Sessions / João H. Costa Vargas 320

"It Takes Two People to Confirm the Truth": The Jazz Fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara / Farah Jasmine Griffin 348

"Blow, Man, Blow!": Representing Gender, White Primitives, and Jazz Melodrama Through A Young Man With A Horn / Nichole T. Rustin 361

The Gendered Jazz Aesthetics of That Man of Man: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and Independent Black Sound Film / Kristin McGee 393

Bibliography 423

Contributors 435

Index 441