With its origins in the 1800s, the history of jazz spans over a hundred years, far beyond the well-known “jazz decade” of the 1920s. The book Fashion and Jazz: Dress, Identity and Subcultural
Improvisation explores such jazz aesthetics as fashion, culture, identities of performers, race, class, gender, politics, societal interpretations, and drugs. The perspectives of performers,
literary witnesses, film directors, journalists, and writers are interwoven to create this unique representation on the visual and societal aspects of the jazz movement. Photographs of
illustrating renown performers in typical jazz attire are featured. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
