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The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies

  • Editor: Gebhardt, Nicholas
  • Editor: Rustin, Nichole T.
  • Editor: Whyton, Tony

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Contents

  • PA RT I: Historical Perspectives
  • 1. Wilkie's Story: Dominant Histories, Hidden Musicians, and Cosmopolitan Connections in Jazz (Tony Whyton) /
  • 2. Diasporic Jazz (Bruce Johnson) /
  • 3. I Like to Recognize the Tune: Interrupting Jazz and Musical Theater Histories (Julianne Lindberg) /
  • 4. "That Ain't No Creole, It's a . . .!": Masquerade, Marketing, and Shapeshifting Race in Early New Orleans Jazz (Bruce Boyd Raeburn) /
  • 5. Jazz Education: Historical and Critical Perspectives (Ken Prouty) /
  • 6. Swan Songs: Jazz, Death, and Famous Last Concerts (Walter van de Leur)
  • 7. Jazz on Radio (Tim Wall)
  • PART II : Methodologies
  • 8. After Wynton: Narrating Jazz in the Postneotraditional Era (David Ake) /
  • 9. Jazz and the Material Turn (Floris Schuiling) /
  • 10. Jazz Meets Pop in the United Kingdom (Catherine Tackley) /
  • 11. On Billboard, Isaac Hayes, and the "Swinging Relationship" Between Jazz and Its Popular Music Cousins, 1950-1973 (John Howland) /
  • 12. "Wacky Post-Fluxus Revolutionary Mixed Media Shenanigans": Rethinking Jazz and Jazz Studies Through Jason Moran's Multimedia Performance (John Gennari) /
  • 13. Conceptualizing Jazz as a Cultural Practice in Soviet Estonia (Heli Reimann) /
  • 14. And Then I Don't Feel So Bad: Jazz, Sentimentality, and Popular Song (Alan Stanbridge)
  • PART III : Core Issues and Topics
  • 15. Space and Place in Jazz (Andrew Berish) /
  • 16. Time in Jazz (Mark Doffman) /
  • 17. Jazz and Disability (George McKay) /
  • 18. Race in the New Jazz Studies (Patrick Burke) /
  • 19. The Vocalized Tone (Tom Perchard) /
  • 20. Jazz and the Recording Process (Benjamin Bierman) /
  • 21. Figuring Improvisation (Peter Elsdon) /
  • 22. Listening for Empire in Transnational Jazz Studies (Frederick J. Schenker)
  • PART IV : Individuals, Collectives, and Communities
  • 23. New Orleans, the "Creole Concept," and Jazz (Wolfram Knauer) /
  • 24. Sitting In and Subbing Out: The Gig Economy of 1960s New York (Marian Jago) /
  • 25. George Lewis's Voyager (Paul Steinbeck) /
  • 26. Quiet About It-Jazz in Japan (Michael Pronko) /
  • 27. Performing Improvisation: Bill Evans and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Deborah Mawer) /
  • 28. Bossa Nova and Beyond: The Jazz as Symbol of Brazilian-Ness (Eduardo Vicente) /
  • 29. Individuals, Collectives, and Communities: Festivals and Festivalization: The Shaping Influence of a Jazz Institution (Scott Currie)
  • PART V : Politics, Discourse, and Ideology
  • 30. The Birth of Jazz Diplomacy: American Jazz in Italy, 1945-1963 (Anna Harwell Celenza) /
  • 31. Jazzing for a Better Future: South Africa and Beyond (Christopher Ballantine) /
  • 32. Eric Hobsbawm (Roger Fagge) /
  • 33. Jazz at the Crossroads of Art and Popular Music Discourses in the 1960s (David Brackett) /
  • 34. The Rhetoric of Jazz (Gregory Clark) /
  • 35. Unfinalizable: Dialog and Self-Expression in Jazz (Charles Hersch) /
  • 36. Improvisation: What Is It Good for? (Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson) /
  • 37. Friends and Neighbors: Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics (Nicholas Gebhardt)
  • PART VI : New Directions and Debates
  • 38. "The Reason I Play the Way I Do Is": Jazzmen, Emotion, and Creating in Jazz (Nichole Rustin-Paschal) /
  • 39. The Art of Improvisation in the Age of Computational Participation (David Borgo) /
  • 40. Renaissance or Afterlife? Nostalgia in the New Jazz Films (Bjoern Heile) /
  • 41. Comics as Criticism: Harvey Pekar, Jazz Writer (Nicolas Pillai) /
  • 42. Free Spirits: The Performativity of Free Improvisation (Petter Frost Fadnes) /
  • 43. My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia (Simon Barber) /
  • 44. Writing the Jazz Life (Krin Gabbard)