Jazz

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I History, Canon and the Politics of the Popular: Is jazz popular music?, Simon Frith
• Hear me talkin' to ya: problems of jazz discourse, Bruce Johnson
• Cultural dialogics and jazz: a White historian signifies, Gary Tomlinson
• Marsalis and Baraka: an essay in comparative cultural discourse, Lee B. Brown
• Struggling with jazz, Scott DeVeaux
• Free jazz in the classroom: an ecological approach to music education, David Borgo
• Deconstructing the jazz tradition: the 'subjectless subject' of new jazz studies, Sherrie Tucker. Part II Representations, People, Repertoire: White face, Black voice: race, gender, and region in the music of the Boswell Sisters, Laurie Stras
• Charlie Parker and popular music, Brian Priestley
• The sound world of Art Tatum, David Horn
• Out of notes: signification, interpretation, and the problem of Miles Davis, Robert Walser
• A question of standards: My Funny Valentine and musical intertextuality, Alan Stanbridge
• Doubleness and jazz improvisation: irony, parody, and ethnomusicology, Ingrid Monson
• Style and the improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts, Peter Elsdon
• Four for Trane: jazz and the disembodied voice, Tony Whyton
• Regendering jazz: Ornette Coleman and the New York jazz scene in the late 1950s, David Ake. Part III Reception, Scenes, Global Perspectives: Stars of David and sons of Sicily: constellations beyond the canon in early New Orleans jazz, Bruce Boyd Raeburn
• A critical reassessment of the reception of early jazz in Britain, Catherine Parsonage
• Making jazz French: the reception of jazz music in Paris, 1927-1934, Jeffrey H. Jackson
• Jammin' on the jazz frontier: the Japanese jazz community in interwar Shanghai, E. Taylor Atkins
• Concert and dance: the foundations of Black jazz in South Africa between the 20s and the early 40s, Christopher Ballantine
• Jazz Britannia: mediating the story of British jazz on television, Tim Wall and Paul Long
• Name index.