Beyond the Bandstand
eBook - ePub

Beyond the Bandstand

Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Beyond the Bandstand

Paul Whiteman in American Musical Culture

About this book

The most successful bandleader of the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was an entertainment icon who played a major role in the mainstreaming of jazz. Whiteman and his band premiered Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Duke Ellington acknowledged his achievements. His astonishing ear for talent vaulted a who's who of artists toward prominence. But Whiteman's oversized presence eclipsed Black jazz musicians while his middlebrow music prompted later generations to jettison him from jazz history.

W. Anthony Sheppard's collection of essays confronts the racial implications of Whiteman's career. The contributors explore Whiteman's broad impact on popular culture, tracking his work and influence in American marketing, animated films, the Black press, Hollywood, and the music publication industry, and following him behind the scenes with arrangers, into grand concert halls, across the Atlantic, into the courtroom, and on television.

Multifaceted and cutting-edge, Beyond the Bandstand explores the racial politics and artistic questions surrounding a controversial figure in popular music.

Contributors: Ryan Raul Bañagale, Stephanie Doktor, John Howland, Katherine M. Leo, Sarah Caissie Provost, W. Anthony Sheppard, Catherine Tackley, Elijah Wald, and Christi Jay Wells

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. A Note on the Paul Whiteman Collection at Williams College
  8. Introduction: Naming and Placing Whiteman
  9. 1 Black Music, White Bodies, Paul Whiteman’s Body
  10. 2 Paul Whiteman, Cultural Ownership, and Jazz Historiography in Dave Peyton’s “The Musical Bunch”
  11. 3 Paul Whiteman and Modern Metropolitan Music, 1927–40
  12. 4 Arranging Orientalism for Whiteman
  13. 5 Concertized Jazz: The Divergent Motives of Whiteman (1924) and Goodman (1938)
  14. 6 “Symphonised Syncopation”: Paul Whiteman in the United Kingdom and Europe in the 1920s
  15. 7 RCA v. Whiteman and the Case for Radio Broadcast Rights
  16. 8 Integration and Segregation in Whiteman’s Music Television, 1948–55
  17. Afterword
  18. Works Cited
  19. Contributors
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover