Uncommon people : resistance, rebellion and jazz - Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012. (New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, 1998)
[The radical tradition] -- Tom Paine --The machine-breakers -- Political shoemakers -- Labour traditions -- The making of the working class, 1870-1914 -- Victorian values -- Man and woman : images on the left -- Birth of a holiday : the First of May -- Socialism and the avant-garde, 1880-1914 -- The Left's megaphone -- [Country people] -- Peasants and politics -- Peasant land occupations -- The bandit Giuliano -- [Contemporary history] -- Vietnam and the dynamics of guerrilla war -- May 1968 -- The rules of violence -- Revolution and sex -- Epitaph for a villain : Roy Cohn -- [Jazz] -- The Caruso of jazz -- Count Basie -- The Duke -- Jazz comes to Europe -- The people's swing -- Jazz since 1960 -- Billie Holliday -- The old world and the new : 500 years after Columbus.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Social history; Working class -- History; Labor movement -- History; Radicalism -- History; Jazz -- History and criticism