Jump for Joy Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America / Gena Caponi-Tabery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caponi-Tabery, Gena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

Social change--United States--History--20th century.

Social change.

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

Sports.

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

Jazz.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 260 p., [20] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era.That summer Count Basie recorded "Jumping at the Woodside," and suddenly jump tunes seemed to be everywhere.

Contents:

Sneakers and tuxes

Up, up and away

The 1936 Olympics

The Lindy Hop takes to the air

The joint is jumping

"That's not basketball": fast breaks, jump shots and slam dunks

The Brown Bomber: Joe Louis

Racial uplift and cultural permission

Jump Jim Crow

Upward mobility: Pullman porters, A. Philip Randolph, and political change

Jump for joy!

Afterword: jumping as play: an aesthetic and theoretical perspective.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781613760772

1613760779

OCLC:

609309984