Monson I.
The Problem with White Hipness:Race, Gender, and Cultural Conceptions in Jazz Historical Discourse. Journal of the American Musicological Society. 1995;38 (3) :396-422.
AbstractThis essay situates hipness within a broader range of African American
history and moral debate than is generally presented in accounts of jazz
history. The perspectives of Amiri Baraka, Mezz Mezzrow, Norman Mailer,
and Dizzy Gillespie are used to develop the thesis that there is a problem with
white presumptions about how hipness relates to African American cultural
life and history. This problem requires addressing interrelationships between
race and gender, as well as the legacy of primitivism embedded in common
assumptions about how jazz since World War II relates to social consciousness,
sexual liberation, and dignity.
monsonwhitehipness.pdf Monson IT.
Responses (To Charles Keil). Ethnomusicology. 1995;39 (1).