Research Catalog

Title

Jazz worlds, world jazz / edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino.

Publication

• Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-
• Plastino, Goffredo

Description

• xxxi, 496 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
• 1 audio disc ;

Summary

"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. 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 jazz--in these global iterations--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"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

Uniform Title

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.

Subjects

• Jazz > Social aspects
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Jazz > North America
• Jazz > History and criticism
• Jazz > Europe
• Jazz > Africa
• Folk music > South America
• Jazz > African influences
• World music
• Folk music > Australia
• Jazz > Asia
• Music and globalization

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• CD contents (pages xxix-xxxi).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-471, discography (page 471) and index.

Contents

Foreword. Who is jazz? / George E. Lewis -- Introduction / Goffredo Plastino and Philip V. Bohlman -- Place. Jazz and the politics of home in Scandinavia / Fabian Holt ; Swinging in Balkan mode : on the innovative approach of Milcho Leviev / Claire Levy ; Azerbaijani mugham jazz / Inna Naroditskaya ; Jazz and its social meanings in Iran : from cultural colonialism to the universal / Laudan Nooshin -- History. Jazz at the edge of empire / Philip V. Bohlman ; That gypsy in France : Django Reinhardt's occupation blouze / Andy Fry ; Jazz, race, and politics in colonial Portugal : discourses and representations / Pedro Roxo and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco -- Media. Traveling music : Mulatu Astatke and the genesis of Ethiopian jazz / Kay Kaufman Shelemay -- The medium is the message? Jazz diplomacy and the democratic imagination / Richard C. Jankowsky ; Musical echoes : diasporic listening and the creation of a world of South African jazz / Carol Ann Muller -- Globalization/Indigenization. Jazz napoletano : a passion for improvisation / Goffredo Plastino ; In search of compatible virtuosities : floating point and fusion in India / Niko Higgins ; Improvising diasporan identities : Armenian jazz / Anahid Kassabian -- Race. Culture, commodity, palimpsest : locating jazz in the world / Travis A. Jackson ; A world(ly) jazz autonomy : Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial matrix / Kristin McGee ; Black music's body politics / Ronald Radano -- Epilogue. Jazz : music of the multitude? / Richard Middleton.

Call Number

Sc E 16-1144

ISBN

• 9780226158082
• 022615808X
• 9780226236032
• 022623603X

OCLC

907147475

Title

Jazz worlds, world jazz / edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

performed music

Type of Medium

unmediated

audio

Type of Carrier

volume

audio disc

Series

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-471, discography (page 471) and index.

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Added Author

Bohlman, Philip V., 1952- editor.

Plastino, Goffredo, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc Audio CD-729

Sc E 16-1144