Collection of essays on the role of gender in jazz studies.
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"Remixing European Jazz Culture examines a European jazz culture that emerged during the mid-1990's in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam and Berlin. Since then, internationally recognized jazz styles have developed. This book examines three phenomena that supported the turn of …
"Remixing European Jazz Culture examines a European jazz culture that emerged during the mid-1990's in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam and Berlin. Since then, internationally recognized jazz styles have developed. This book examines three phenomena that supported the turn of …
"Remixing European Jazz Culture examines a European jazz culture that emerged during the mid-1990's in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam and Berlin. Since then, internationally recognized jazz styles have developed. This book examines three phenomena that supported the turn of …
Examines the origins of jazz and argues that African-American musicians were influenced by a variety of traditions in American culture in creating this art form.
Explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. The author argues that jazz embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. He examines jazz in relation to race and national identity in the US and broadens his …
"The separate but interrelated essays in this book look at jazz through three large lenses as follows: (1) as an art that is intimately tied to national identity in the United States; (2) as a type of music that is inextricable from its African-influenced base; and (3) as a majo…
Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz--and the world-view or consciousness that surrounds it--embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African Ameri…
