Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-433) and index.

Separated at "birth": singing and the history of jazz / Lara Pellegrinelli -- With Lovie and Lil: rediscovering two Chicago pianists of the 1920s / Jeffrey Taylor -- Gender, jazz, and the popular front / Monica Hairston -- "The battle of the saxes": gender, dance bands, and British nationalism in the Second World War / Christina Baade -- Identity for sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis, and cultural replay in music / Tracy McMullen -- From the point of view of the pavement: a geopolitics of Black dance / Jayna Brown -- Perverse hysterics: the noisy cri of Les Diaboliques / Julie Dawn Smith -- "Born out of jazz ... yet embracing all music": race, gender, and technology in George Russell's Lydian chromatic concept / Eric Porter -- "But this music is mine already!": "white woman" as jazz collector in the film New Orleans (1947) / Sherrie Tucker -- Fitting the part / Ingrid Monson --

"Better a jazz album than lipstick" (Lieber Jazzplatte als Lippenstift): the 1956 Jazz podium series reveals images of jazz and gender in post-war Germany / Ursel Schlicht -- Exclusion, openness, and Utopia in Black male performance at the world stage jazz jam sessions / João H. Costa Vargas -- "It takes two people to confirm the truth": the jazz fiction of Sherley Ann Williams and Toni Cade Bambara / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- "Blow, man, blow!": representing gender, white primitives, and jazz melodrama through A young man with a horn / Nichole T. Rustin -- The gendered jazz aesthetics of That man of mine: the international sweethearts of rhythm and independent Black sound film / Kristin McGee.