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Publication: Jazz vs the Jazz Age

The editor Mark Whalan did herculean work pulling together this all-new volume on the History of American Modernism. It features a truly...

Publication: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet

About ten years ago, I travelled to Paris to do some research related to the jazz musician Sidney Bechet at the Bibliothèque Nationale de...

William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship in the Humanities

I am pleased to share that I am the winner of UNLV's 2022 Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Humanities.

2022 American Book Award!

I'm thrilled to share that my book has received an American Book Award (Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Award for Criticism) from the Before...