High notes: The role of drugs in the making of jazz

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1-38

  Singer, Merrill ^a,b   Mirhej, Greg ^a  

^a HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Drugs; Heroin; Jazz; Marijuana; Music

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG USE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MUSIC; MUSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CREATIVENESS; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MUSIC; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; RACE RELATIONS; RELIGION; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 33751272908     PISSN: 15332640     EISSN: 15332659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J233v05n04_01     Document Type: Review

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