The jazz barn : Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the place of jazz in American life / John Gennari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gennari, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Jazz.

Music and race--United States--History--20th century.

Music and race.

Jazz--History and criticism.

Music Inn (Lenox, Massachusetts).

Berkshire Hills (Mass.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Berkshire Hills (Mass.).

Physical Description:

xii, 274 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The story of Music Inn is the story of the mainstreaming of jazz within the frames of post-World War II American modernism, middle-class cultural tourism, the civil rights and black freedom movements, the folk cultures of the African and Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and a body of folkloric and anthropological thought influencing the perception of those cultures"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Jazz on the Hillside

The Town and the City

Marshall Stearns, McCarthyism, and the Jazz Roundtables

The Barn, the Eagle, and the "Negro Gentleman"

Lenox and the Shape of Jazz to Come

Conclusion. The Place to Be.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Gennari, John Jazz barn

ISBN:

9781684582853

1684582857

OCLC:

1502743578

Publisher Number:

90102785921