Queering Kansas City Jazz : Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (234 pages)
- Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality .
- Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Rethinking Kansas City's Jazz Story -- 2. Kansas City's Jazz Scene -- 3. The Myth of the Wide-Open Town -- 4. Sissy Nights at the Spinning Wheel -- 5. Crib Girls to Criminals -- 6. Queering Dante's Inferno -- 7. Remembering KC -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781496210326
Jazz-Missouri-Kansas City-History and criticism. Jazz-Social aspects-Missouri-Kansas City-History.