Race, Music, and National Identity: Images of Jazz in American Fiction, 1920-1960 Book

1 Introduction 11

2 Music of Corruption: Jazz as Social Threat in the Early Twenties 22

3 "Some Finer Thing": Jazz Amid the Culture Wars of the Late Twenties 39

4 The Market of Music: Jazz and the Great Depression in the Harlem Renaissance 58

5 White Jazz:A Primitive Commodity 74

6 Defining a Nation: Jazz and American Identity in the Early Forties 93

7 Music of Contradictions: Reconciling U.S. Domestic and Foreign Identities 109

8 "Gin, Jazz, and Dreams": Cultivating the Hipster Aesthetic in Ellison, Mailer, and Beaumont 122

9 A Racial Paradise: The Ambiguity of Identity in The Horn by John Clellon Holmes and On The Road by Jack Kerouac 139

10 Conclusion 164

Notes 171

Works Cited 183

Index 189