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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Jazz Canon and Its Consequences 1(30) Krin Gabbard RETHINKING JAZZ HISTORY ``Moldy Figs'' and Modernists: Jazz at War (1942--1946) 31(26) Bernard Gendron Jazz in Crisis, 1948--1958: Ideology and Representation 57(19) Steven B. Elworth Other: From Noun to Verb 76(24) Nathaniel Mackey Historical Context and the Definition of Jazz: Putting More of the History in ``Jazz History'' 100(17) William Howland Kenney Oral Histories of Jazz Musicians: The NEA Transcripts as Texts in Context 117(17) Burton W. Peretti The Media of Memory: The Seductive Menace of Records in Jazz History 134(31) Jed Rasula THE JAZZ ARTIST AMONG THE DISCOURSES ``Out of Notes'': Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis 165(24) Robert Walser Critical Alchemy: Anthony Braxton and the Imagined Tradition 189(28) Ronald M. Radano Ephemera Underscored: Writing Around Free Improvisation 217(26) John Corbett THE ESSENTIAL CONTEXT: JAZZ AND POLITICS Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style 243(13) Eric Lott Ascension: Music and the Black Arts Movement 256(19) Lorenzo Thomas Contributors 275(2) Index 277