...This chapter considers how in America's postwar years, the idea of Negro music (Jazz) as a somehow natural response to centuries of official oppression had currency not just with self-defined hipsters, but also with intellectuals who in most ways swam with the cultural-political mainstream. Whether...

...This chapter examines Negro music as well as musicians such as singers, instrumentalists, directors, and composers in Illinois in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It begins with a discussion of various Negro musicians in Illinois, from piano prodigy “Blind Tom” Wiggins...

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