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Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity books (Wesleyan) Paintings " It marks a departureGrounded essays on jazz as a unifying and transcendent force. Winner of the Society of Ethnomusicology's Alan Merriam Prize (2006) Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazzand the world view or consciousness that surrounds itembodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. Fans and