Pacific Standard Time : modernism and the making of West Coast jazz Spencer, Michael Thomas Jazz--Pacific Coast (U.S.)--20th century Jazz--History and criticism--20th century Music--20th century--Philosophy and aesthetics Jazz Music--Philosophy and aesthetics American studies Music American history Thesis Ph. D. Michigan State University. American Studies Program 2011. An interdisciplinary study of one of the most overlooked and understudied movements in the history of jazz, this dissertation draws from the fields of New Jazz Studies, Popular Culture Studies, and Art History in order to reconstruct the cultural history of West Coast jazz. Focusing on the critical texts and institutions that allowed this movement to germinate and expand, I explore the ways in which the music was represented through various types of media: on record, on radio, on screen, in concert, and in print (i.e., record labels, radio stations, jazz periodicals, etc.). As a result, this study recontextualizes the West Coast jazz movement within the milieu of California modernism around the middle 20th century as a way to observe the broader jazz community; one which included musicians as well as photographers, painters, architects, sculptors, filmmakers, and other modernists. Includes bibliographical references. Description based on online resource; title from PDF t.p. (Dec. 14, 2011). Stowe, David W Largey, Michael Prouty, Ken Michaelsen, Scott Rachman, Stephen 2011 text Electronic dissertations Academic theses Criticism, interpretation, etc application/pdf 1 online resource (x, 400 pages) : digital, PDF file. isbn:9781124607900 isbn:1124607900 umi:3452955 local:Spencer_grad.msu_0128D_10314 en In Copyright Ph.D. Doctoral American Studies Michigan State University