The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
by Robert G. O’Meally

A comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. This collection includes an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk.