Land of Dreams

Introduction: Improvising Culture/ 1. Jazz: Words, Objects, Sounds, Movements/ 2. Living it Up: Freedom as a Performative Act/ 3. Spectacular Bodies: Ritualised Actions and Behavioural Discourses of the New Orleans Elite/ 4. Walking the Walk: Public Space and Forms of Physical Display/ 5. Subversive Steps: Bodily Freedom and Dance/ 6. The Pleasure Principle: Sexual Experimentation, Promiscuity and Hedonism/ 7. Homemade Freedoms: The Political, Racial and the Musical/ 8. Conclusion: The Empire of Liberty in The Land of Dreams/ Prologue: Swinging Like Crazy: Contemporary Inclinations and Imperfections / Bibliography / Index

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• Musica ligeira orquestras " big band"
• Jazz
• Antropologia social e cultural

Conflict, Change and Precarity; Cultural Studies; Culture and Critical Theory; History; Identity; Jim Crow; Music; New Orleans; Politics, Society and Culture; Protest; Race; Sexuality; Swing; The South