Synopses & Reviews
Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when British colonial officials danced to jazz in the clubs of Calcutta in the waning years of the Raj, how, exactly, had it gotten there?
Jazz Worlds/World Jazz aims to answer these questions and more, bringing together voices from countries as far flung as Azerbaijan, Armenia, and India to show that the story of jazz is not trapped in American history books but alive in global modernity.
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Monumental in scope, this book explores the relationship between jazz and culture and how they influence each other across a range of themes and settings. Contributors offer an analysis of the social meaning of jazz in Iran, a look at the genesis of Ethiopian jazz and at Indian fusion, and chapters on jazz diplomacy, Balkan swing, and that French export par excellence: Django Reinhardt. Altogether the contributors approach jazzandmdash;in these global iterationsandmdash;through the themes that have always characterized it at home: place, history, mobility, media, and race. The result is a first-of-its-kind map of jazz around the globe that pays tribute to the players who have given the form its seemingly infinite possibilities.and#160;
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and#8220;A sterling collection of writings. . . . There are no misfires. This collection will be useful for decades to come. . . . Highly recommended.and#8221;
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"it will be interesting to observe the impact that this collection of unusual, entertaining and thought-provoking perspectives has on jazz studies."
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What is jazz? What is gainedand#151;and what is lostand#151;when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark have assembled a stellar group of writers to look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More than just a history of jazz and its performers, this collections seeks out those people and pieces missing from the established narratives to explore what they can tell us about the way jazz has been defined and its history has been told.
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Jazz/Not Jazz is an innovative and inspiring investigation of jazz as it is practiced, theorized and taught today. Taking their cues from current debates within jazz scholarship, the contributors to this collection open up jazz studies to a transdisciplinarity that is rich in its diversity of approaches, candid in its appraisals of critical worth, transparent in its ideological suppositions, and catholic in its subjects/objects of inquiry.and#8221;and#151;Kevin Fellezs, author of
Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion.
and#147;This collection is a delight. Each essay opens up some previously ignored aspect of jazz history. Anyone who knows the New Jazz Studies and is wise enough to acquire this book will immediately devour it.and#8221;and#151;Krin Gabbard, author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture.
and#147;This volume is truly one of a kind, eminently readable and filled with new insights. It will make an extremely important contribution to jazz literature.and#8221;and#151;Jeffrey Taylor, Director, H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College.
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In many peopleand#8217;s minds, jazz is the soundtrack of America.and#160; Planted in the southern soil alongside cotton and tobacco and nurtured in urban meccas such as New York, Kansas City, and Chicagoand#151;jazz is the music of industry, protest, and change.and#160; But jazz is also a global music.and#160; As long as there have been jazz musicians, there has been jazz in all corners of the world, from Shanghai and Delhi to Havana and Rio.and#160; There were even jazz bands such as the Ghetto Swingers in Nazi concentration camps.and#160; Ernest Hemingway wrote about walking into clubs in Paris in the 1920s and seeing jazz.and#160; How did it get there?
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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz aims to answer that question as well as the broader question of the international presence of jazz: How does jazz participate in globalization?and#160; Explored via the major themes of place, history, media, globalization/indigenization, and race, volume editors Phil Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino have assembled a premiere group of authors whose sites of study range from Azerbaijan to Armenia to India.
About the Author
Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of many books, including
Jewish Musical Modernism and
Music and the Racial Imagination, and coeditor of the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Goffredo Plastino is a reader in ethnomusicology in the school of arts and cultures at Newcastle University. He is the editor of
Mediterranean Mosaic and coeditor of
Made in Italy and
Neapolitan Postcards.and#160;
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Categories
1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography
Eric Porter
2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo
Elijah Wald
3. The Humor of Jazz
Charles Hiroshi Garrett
4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community
Ken Prouty
5. Latin Jazz, Afro-Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Caribbean Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just . . . Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music
Christopher Washburne
Part Two. Practices
6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook
John Howland
7. and#147;Slightly Left of Centerand#8221;: Atlantic Records and the Problems of Genre
Daniel Goldmark
8. The Praxis of Composition-Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship
Tamar Barzel
9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz
Loren Kajikawa
Part Three. Education
10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education
Jessica Bissett Perea
11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education
David Ake
12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The and#147;Subjectless Subjectand#8221; of New Jazz Studies
Sherrie Tucker
Contributors
Index