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Author:

Caponi-Tabery, Gena.

Title:

Jump for joy : jazz, basketball, and Black culture in 1930s America / Gena Caponi-Tabery.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xx, 260 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Jazz--History--History--20th century.
Sports--History--History--20th century.
Social change--History--20th century.
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
African Americans--History--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--1877-1964.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-238) and index.

Contents:

Sneakers and tuxes -- Up, up and away -- The 1936 Olympics -- The Lindy Hop takes to the air -- The joint is jumping -- "That's not basketball": fast breaks, jump shots and slam dunks -- The Brown Bomber: Joe Louis -- Racial uplift and cultural permission -- Jump Jim Crow -- Upward mobility: Pullman porters, A. Philip Randolph, and political change -- Jump for joy! -- Afterword: jumping as play: an aesthetic and theoretical perspective.

ISBN:

1558496629 (library cloth : alk. paper)
9781558496620 (library cloth : alk. paper)
1558496637 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781558496637 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008003492

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)