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An exploration of masculinity in jazz culture and the work of Charles Mingus Jr.

In jazz circles, players and listeners with big ears hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz. Essays range from a reflection on the female boogie-woogie pianists who played at Cafe Society in New York during the 1930s and 1940s to interpretations of how the jazzman is represented in Dorothy Baker s novel Young Man with a Horn (1938) and Michael Curtiz s film adaptation (1950)....

In jazz circles, players and listeners with big ears hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this interdisciplinary collection explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz. Essays range from a reflection on the female boogie-woogie pianists who played at Cafe Society in New York during the 1930s and 1940s to interpretations of how the jazzman is represented in Dorothy Baker s novel Young Man with a Horn (1938) and Michael Curtiz s film adaptation (1950)....