TY - BOOK ID - 78141089 TI - Lonesome roads and streets of dreams PY - 2012 SN - 1280125977 9786613529831 0226044963 9780226044965 9781280125973 6613529834 9780226044941 0226044947 9780226044958 0226044955 PB - Chicago London The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Jazz musicians KW - Music and race KW - Big band music KW - Big band jazz KW - Orchestral jazz KW - Stage band music KW - Symphonic jazz KW - Jazz KW - Popular music KW - Dance orchestra music KW - Swing (Music) KW - Race and music KW - Race KW - Musicians KW - Homes and haunts KW - History KW - Social aspects. KW - Garber, Jan. KW - Barnet, Charlie. KW - Ellington, Duke, KW - Christian, Charlie, KW - Christian, Charles, KW - Christian, Charley, KW - Duke, Obie, KW - Ėllington, Di︠u︡k, KW - Ellington, Edward Kennedy, KW - Ellington, Obie Duke, KW - Greer, Sonny, KW - Turner, Joe, KW - Barnet, Charles KW - Barnet, Charlie, KW - Barnett, Charlie, KW - jazz, america, music, history, venues, concerts, improvisation, nation, identity, performance, race, geography, boundaries, jan garber, duke ellington, bandleader, saxophone, charlie barnet, guitar, christian, segregation, south, north, traveling, jim crow, civil rights, prejudice, catalina island, manhattan, oklahoma city, musicians, big band, casino ballroom, make believe, meadowbrook inn, orchestra, region, place, space, nonfiction, reference. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141089 AB - Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing er ER -