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

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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.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Date
20 June 2018
Pages
226
ISBN
9781498567510

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.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Date
20 June 2018
Pages
226
ISBN
9781498567510