Before it even had a name -- The jazz diaspora -- The coming of the jazz age -- Jazz goes to college -- The rise of swing -- Singing jazz -- The American dream -- Looking backward -- Enter the Atomic Age -- Days of turmoil and ferment -- The darkness before the dawn -- The future of jazz -- Sixty brief biographies.
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