The Jazz Barn: Music Inn, the Berkshires, and the Place of Jazz in American Life

＂The story of Music Inn is the story of the mainstreaming of jazz within the frames of post-World War II American modernism, middle-class cultural tourism, the civil rights and black freedom movements, the folk cultures of the African and Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and a body of folkloric and anthropological thought influencing the perception of those cultures＂-- Provided by publisher.

John Gennari is professor of English and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge and Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics.