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Gettin’ Around examines how the global jazz aesthetic strives, in various ways, toward an imaginative reconfiguration of a humanity that transcends entrenched borders of ethnicity and nationhood, while at the same time remaining keenly aware of the exigencies of history. Jürgen E. Grandt deliberately refrains from a narrow, empirical definition of jazz or of transnationalism and, true to the jazz aesthetic itself, opts for a broader, more inclusive scope, even as he listens carefully and closely to jazz’s variegated soundtrack. Such an approach seeks not only to avoid the museal whiff of a “golden age, time past” but also to broaden the appeal and the applicability of the overall critical argument.

For Grandt, “international” simply designates currents of people, ideas, and goods between distinct geopolitical entities or nation-states, whereas “transnational” refers to liminal dynamics that transcend preordained borderlines occurring above, below, beside, or along the outer contours of nation-states. Gettin’ Around offers a long overdue consideration of the ways in which jazz music can inform critical practice in the field of transnational (American) studies and grounds these studies in specifically African American cultural contexts.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Prelude
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. Introduction: Dexter Gordon Gets Around
  2. pp. 9-28
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  1. Chapter 1. The Afro-kinetic Passages of Madam Zajj: Driving Jazz “Home” with Manu Dibango and Duke Ellington
  2. pp. 29-57
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  1. Chapter 2. Sheets of Jazz: Hans Janowitz Takes the Coltrane
  2. pp. 58-75
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  1. Chapter 3. High Fidelity on the Black Atlantic: Rocking Out with Langston Hughes and Nick Hornby
  2. pp. 76-100
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  1. Chapter 4. “Good Morning, Heartache”: Sound, Script, and Improvisation in Paule Marshall’s The Fisher King and Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal
  2. pp. 101-125
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  1. Conclusion: Jürg Wickihalder Gets Around
  2. pp. 126-138
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 139-160
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 161-180
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 181-188
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