Embedded in the faded history of the musical Barbarin family are three factors deeply important to the history of New Orleans jazz. First, that the Barbarin’s musical success was rooted in the power of their extensive family and kinship networks. And in particular the ways those…
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Este trabajo exploratorio parte del recuento de las primeras experiencias de los músicos formados durante la década de 1970 que incursionaron en el jazz encontrando la necesidad de aportar la inclusión de ritmos y elementos de las músicas nacionales, desembocando así, en la déca…
Preservation Hall is an iconic institution in New Orleans that has presented music known as “traditional New Orleans jazz” since 1961, primarily to a tourist audience in the French Quarter. A revered and internationally celebrated venue, touring band, and nonprofit foundation, t…
From aesthetics to production, Fred Ho's music was thoroughly grounded in his politics. In this thesis, I examine the ways in which Ho's use of form, on multiple levels, served to musically realize his political struggle. In a close analysis of "Strange Fruit Revisited" from Und…
My research explores the link (“Missing Link”) between African-American music and North African core-musical traditions. To accomplish this, in my research I have examined the transmutation of core North African (Moroccan) musical traditions to Spain during the Middle Ages (711–…
Lennie Tristano was a pioneering jazz musician who, through a succession of innovations, transgressed the boundaries of jazz as well as conventional style categories of jazz history; as a result, his music represents a rare achievement of individuality. For example, in 1949 he m…
This thesis presents an inquiry into the discursive construction of South African exile in jazz practices during the 1960s. Focusing on the decade in which exile coalesced for the first generation of musicians who escaped the strictures of South Africa's apartheid regime, I argu…
The recordings and performances of Cal Tjader in the 1950s and 1960s made him one of the leaders of the Latin Jazz movement. Though he would eventually be known for his interpretations of a wide range of Latin American musics, it was the mambos, cha-chas and other Cuban styles o…
“Sensing the City” examines the perceived and embodied urban modern sensory experience of 1920s Istanbul and the district of Beyoğlu. Specifically, it explores the concept of the “decadent modern” as a way to address what contemporary critics and Turkish republican scholars have…
In the last twenty years, recent scholarship has opened up fresh inquiry into several aspects of New Orleans society during the late nineteenth century. Much work has been done to reassess the political and cultural involvement, as well as perspective of, the black Creoles of th…
This dissertation undertakes a comparative analysis of the musical, written, and spoken production of Sun Ra and Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with respect to the larger African Atlantic intellectual environment, situating the two artists as both shapers of an Atlantic intellectual cultur…
African music and its musicians from the Pharaonic periods to Mali to the Mississippi Delta to the South Bronx have contributed some of the most lasting and influential cultural creations known. The music and musicians of Africa have been studied as early as the early 18 th cent…
This thesis investigates the use of jazz music as an American diplomatic tool in Bombay (modern day Mumbai), India, during the late 1950s, a critical phase of the Cold War between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union. Specifically, it addresses the Dave Br…
In the 1960s, African American jazz pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams (1910-81) used what was then known as the Negro spiritual, blues, swing, bebop, and even ragtime as inspiration for her settings of the sacred liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. She deliberately chose …
Nathaniel Carlyle Adderley was an American jazz artist active in New York City, Florida and Europe throughout his extensive musical career. A prominent cornet player and composer, Adderley was highly respected by many of his peers in New York City, Florida, as well as all over E…
Thad Jones’s role as a big-band composer, arranger and leader of the famed Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra formed the basis for his international reputation in the jazz world. However, it can be demonstrated that Jones’s improvisational style as a jazz trumpet soloist directly in…
The city of Birmingham, Alabama, was once home to a thriving music community that helped shape the sound and culture of jazz nationwide; at the heart of this tradition was a public schoolteacher named John T. “Fess” Whatley. Often consigned by historians to the footnotes or over…
The influence of Asian traditional music and thought on Western composition has been growing for more than a century. Composers working in the hybrid space between musical practices are now a formidable presence in Western art music; their role in some traditional music contexts…