Book Reviews

The essays in the first section, "Rooting Gender in Jazz History," range in topic from the gendered history of vocal performance in early jazz to the relationship between cultural imagination and constructions of masculinity via big band music. Unlike others who have concentrated primarily on the cultural and political history of the nightclub, Hairston discusses how these aspects of the club's culture informed the performance aesthetic, repertory, and reception of pianists Hazel Scott and Mary Lou Williams. 2Tracy McMullen's "Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and Cultural Replay in Music" analyzes how historical recreations of the repertory and the ethos of the big band era of the 1940s frame constructs of masculinity and racial identity in the modern jazz scene. Duke University Press , 1995 ) ; and Robert G. O'Meally , Brent Hayes Edwards , and Farah Jasmine Griffin , eds., Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (New York : Columbia University Press , 2004 ) . 2 David Margolick , Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights (Philadelphia : Running Press , 2000 ) ; Jonathon E. Bakan, "Café Society: A Locus for the Intersection of Jazz and Politics during the Popular Front Era" (Ph.D. diss., York University, 2004); and Barney Josephson and Terry Trilling-Josephson , Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People (Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2009 ) . Duke University Press , 1995 ) ; and Robert G. O'Meally , Brent Hayes Edwards , and Farah Jasmine Griffin , eds., Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies (New York : Columbia University Press , 2004 ) . 2 David Margolick , Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights (Philadelphia : Running Press , 2000 ) ; Jonathon E. Bakan, "Café Society: A Locus for the Intersection of Jazz and Politics during the Popular Front Era" (Ph.D. diss., York University, 2004); and Barney Josephson and Terry Trilling-Josephson , Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People (Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2009 ) .