Jazz/not jazz : the music and its boundaries /
edited by David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Goldmark.
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2012.
- 300 p.
"A Roth Family Foundation music in America book".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is jazz? What is gained when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while connected to jazz institutions, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form.