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The article examines the work of jazz critic, educator, and civil rights activist Marshall Stearns from the 1930s through the 1950s. It moreover illuminates the role of the cultural front and McCarthyism in the construction of the jazz tradition.
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This is the first article on jazz critic, educator, and civil rights activist Marshall Stearns. It provides insight into and contextualizes archival material from the Marshall Stearns Collection at the Insitute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University).
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This page is a summary of: Marshall Winslow Stearns and the Politics of Jazz Historiography, American Music, December 2012, University of Illinois Press,
DOI: 10.5406/americanmusic.30.4.0468.
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