Register
Register here to join an ASA community. Only current ASA members may contribute to the community blogs. Registration is not required to submit display or text ads or news and events or to view many pages. We will refuse posts that are not of professional interest to ASA members.
Register here at the JHU Press web site for online access to American Quarterly and the Encyclopedia of American Studies Online. Click here for membership FAQ's
Register here for the 2010 annual meeting
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
By University | By Year
McMichael, Robert K. "Consuming Jazz: Black Music and Whiteness," American Civilization Program, Brown University, May 1996.
This project compares jazz scenes since the 1920s to more dominant forms of racial intercourse by examining the “integrationist subcultures” of black and white audiences and musicians. Using the words of black and white musicians, writers, and “ordinary” listeners, interracial jazz scenes in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1960s both reflected and departed from mainstream codes of racial interaction. Ethnographic interviews with contemporary white jazz listeners in the San Francisco Bay Area extend the project’s exploration of the white racial unconscious into the 1990s. The project ultimately suggests that during a time of substantial retrenchment of dominant racist ideologies in the United States, jazz music—and its historically contingent integrationist subcultures—provides modest yet hopeful models for expanding discourses about, and across, racial lines.
Quick Links
American Quarterly [official journal site]
American Quarterly [editorial site]