Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis: A Twentieth-Century Transnational Biography

Lefkovitz, Aaron

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.

EAN

9781498567534

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published

21 June 2021

Pages

226