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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Introduction: You’ve Got to be Jazzistic
I. Music, Image, and Identity
1 Nick Heffernan: You Ain’t Got to Be Black to beBlack: Music, Race Consciousness, and Identity in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Mojo Hand
2 Corin Willis: Blackface Minstelstry and Jazz Signification in Hollywood’s Early Sound Era
II. Jazz, Blues, and Literature
3 Steven C. Tracy: Thanks, Jack, for That: The ‘Strange Legacies’ of Sterling Brown
4 Songlines: An Interview with Michael S. Harper
5 Robert Cataliotti: Synthesizing the Hoodoo of Voodoo: The Music as [Dis]embodied Hero in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo
6 Bertram Ashe: Paul Beatty’s White Boy Shuffle Blues: Jazz Poetry, John Coltrane, and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
7 Giving Voice: An Interview with Jayne Cortez
8 David Murray: Out of this World: Music and Spirit in the Writings of Nathaniel Macket and Amiri Baraka
III. Music, Image, and Identity – II
9 John Gennari: Blaxsploitation Bird: Ross Russell’s Pulp Addiction
10 Krin Gabbard: The Many Faces of Miles Davis
IV. Jazz, Blues, and Film
11 Ian Brookes: A Rebus of Democratic Slants and Angles: the Have and Have Not, Racial Representation and Musical Performance in a Democracy at War
12 David Butler: No Brotherly Love: Hollywood Jazz, Racial Prejudice and John Lewis’s Score for Odds Against Tomorrow
13 Mervyn Cooke: Anatomy of a Movie: Duke Ellington and 1950s Film Scoring
V. Epistrophy
14 Michael Jarrett: Jumping Tracks: The Path of Conduction