The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies / edited by Ádám Havas, Bruce Johnson, and David Horn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Havas, Ádám, editor.

Johnson, Bruce, 1943- editor.

Horn, David, 1942- editor.

Series:

Routledge music companions.

Routledge Music Companions Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz--Historiography.

Jazz--Political aspects--History.

Improvisation (Music)--History.

Improvisation (Music).

Dissemination of music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (518 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies recognizes the proliferation of jazz as global music in the 21st century. It illustrates the multi-vocality of contemporary jazz studies, combining local narratives, global histories and cultural criticism.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I What Is Diasporic Jazz?

1 Jazz as Diaspora Space

2 What Is "Jazz"? Categories, Passages, Contradictions, and Power

3 Ways of Conceptualizing the Jazz Diaspora

4 Rethinking Diaspora in Diasporic Jazz

5 Diaspora in South African Jazz History and Contemporary Performance

6 Homecomings as Jazz Diaspora: Return Migrations of US Musicians

7 Identity Politics and Diasporic Jazz: Reflections from the European Semi-Periphery

Part II Histories and Counter-Narratives

8 "Snakehips Swing": The West Indian Contribution to British Dance Band Music

9 Jazz Diaspora and the Colombian Caribbean: From the Jazz Band to the Big Band

10 Booker T. Pittman and the Mid-Twentieth Century South American Jazz Diaspora

11 Individuality in Collectivism-Jazz Clubs in the GDR as Nonconformist Diasporic Institutions

12 "Real Dance Music in Your Town Soon!" The Importance of Jazz as Dance Music in Aotearoa New Zealand 1920s-1940s

13 Jazz Diaspora, Latin Musical Influences, and Australia

Part III John Whiteoak Making, Disseminating, and Consuming Diasporic Jazz

14 Music Industry and the Media

15 Public Broadcasting Companies and Jazz Outside of the United States

16 First Monday Revisited: Production and Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age

17 Soviet Jazz on American Vinyl: Consuming Diasporic Jazz at Home

18 "L'Autre Musique du Québec": Musique Actuelle and the Making of an Experimental Jazz Scene in Québec

19 Forum Jazz Indonesia: Organizing and Branding Indonesian Jazz Festivals

Part IV Otto Stuparitz Culture, Politics, and Ideology

20 The Making of Jazz in Colonial Asia: Imperial Legacies

21 Jazz in the Global Arena: The Case of Colonized Bombay, 1920-1947.

22 Jazz in Japan: From Post-War US-Japan Relations' Perspective

23 Settler Colonization and Austrological Improvisative Musicality Since the Late Nineteenth Century

24 Jazz with Mapuche Inspiration: Identities and Political Links in Contemporary Chilean Jazz

25 Patient Infusion: Strategies of Community Formation in the Vietnamese Jazz Scene

Part V Communities and Distinctions

26 Becoming Cultural Elites in China: Jazz, Modernization and Professionalism

27 Jauk Armand Elmaleh-Lemal and the Casablanca Jazz Scene of the 1950s and 1960s

28 DIY Jazz Cultures in Queensland, Australia

29 The Isle Is Full of Noises: Tasmania's Unique Jazz Identity

30 Improvised Music in Wales

31 Urban Jazz Scenes in Portugal: Culture, Spaces, and Networks

32 "Conceptual Jazz" and "Jazz-Off": Avant-Garde, Globalization, and Personal Interpretations of Jazz in Portugal-The Legacy of Jorge Lima Barreto (1968-1974)

33 Jazz City Pigeonics: Jazzloftet as a Diasporic "Ground Zero

Part VI Presenting and Representing Diasporic Jazz

34 Beyond Frontiers: From Japanese Traditional Koto to Transnational Improvised Music

35 "Säd Afrika": Django Bates and the South African Imaginary 1985-2012

36 Bridging the Gap: Re-Rendering Jazz Practice in London's Displaced Diasporas

37 "Angry Young Men," Jazz, and Englishness

38 Center-Periphery Relations and European Jazz Identities

39 Jazz in Spanish Film Noir: Modernity and Youth Cultures During Late Francoism

Part VII Challenges and New Directions

40 Indigeneity Meets Improvisation as Free Jazz: A Musical Director's/Editor's Perspective

41 Jazz as Postwar West-German Cultural Catalyst and African American Resistance

42 Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene

43 Diasporic Jazz Among the Disciplines.

44 Is Jazz in Europe European Jazz?: Countries, Continents, and Cultural Ownership

45 Diasporic Jazz and the "Material Turn": A Case Study

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

1-04-017560-0

1-04-017558-9

1-003-21263-8

9781003212638

OCLC:

1463295274