Jazz Planet

Acknowledgments ix Toward a Global History of Jazz xi E. Taylor Atkins PART I: LOCAL HEROES "Si no tiene swing no vaya' a la rumba": Cuban Musicians and Jazz 3(16) Raúl A. Fernández Django Reinhardt's Left Hand 19(22) Benjamin Givan Brazilian Jazz and Friction of Musicalities 41(18) Acácio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade Jazz in India: Perspectives on Historical Development and Musical Acculturation 59(22) Warren R. Pinckney, Jr. Interpreting the Creative Process of Jazz in Zimbabwe 81(18) Linda F. Williams Musical Transculturation: From African American Avant-Garde Jazz to European Creative Improvisation, 1962-1981 99(16) Christopher G. Bakriges Gianluigi Trovesl's Musk: An Historical and Geographical Short-Circuit 115(14) Stefano Zenni PART II: LOCAL POLITICS The Music of the Gross, 1928-1931 129(22) S. Frederick Starr Naturalizing the Exotic: The Australian Jazz Convention 151(18) Bruce Johnson Music and Emancipation: The Social Role of Black Jazz and Vaudeville in South Africa Between the 1920's and the Early 1940's 169(22) Christopher Ballantine A Japanese Story about Jazz in Russia: Itsuki Hiroyuki's "Farewell, Moscow Gang" 191(16) Michael Molasky Swinging Differences: Reconstructed Identities in the Early Swedish Jazz Age 207(18) Johan Fornäs Black Internationale: Notes on the Chinese Jazz Age 225(20) Andrew F. Jones Notes 245(12) Bibliography 257(20) Contributors 277(4) Index 281