| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

Jazz on the River. By William Howland Kenney. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xii, 229 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-43733-7.)

The history of how riverboat entertainment venues shaped the evolution of jazz receives long-overdue analysis in this thorough and sensitive study. Arguing that "riverboat jazz expressed an unsettled, exploratory musical sensibility for its radically unsettled times" (p. 4), William Howland Kenney's text analyzes all the major players in riverboat jazz, beginning with the entrepreneurs who developed riverboat pleasure cruises on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in the early twentieth century. John Streckfus and Sons provided the definitive influence on this new tourist industry by shifting the declining fortunes of packet boat freight hauling to the transport of "sightseers and excursionists" (p. 16). Drawing upon theorists as diverse as Victor Turner, Gaston Bachelard, and James Clifford, Kenney suggests that the success of these ventures derived from the imaginative retreat they provided from ordinary life.

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