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He does a whole history, which I can't produce here,
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of how Artie Shaw and various players played Gershwin,
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and used black musicians in their ensembles, and how this very
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dance, when Steena, here, we're told,
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in a way, inhabits most fully her whiteness, she does that by
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performing to a music that is radically hybrid,
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black and Jewish.
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So, Freedman argues that in this passage we get identity as a vision
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of absolute fluidity, absolute performance and fluidity,
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and that the whole history of American jazz stands behind
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that imagined state.
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It's the very difference between the hybrid music and the pure whiteness