Christa Bruckner-Haring, André Doehring (eds.): Jazz Journeys, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2024 (Jazzforschung / Jazz Research 50/51), 370 pages., 17 x 24 cm, English, Softcover
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Jazz Journeys
Jazz is a music of journeys, migration, and global mobility – from the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade to global travels for escape, exchange, or putting down roots. Having migrated via changing modes of transportation and media communication, the sounds, musicians, and theories of jazz have led to today’s diasporic jazz world of global and local encounters. This book features articles that deal with jazz in various geographic areas such as Japan or Israel, orchestras travelling to Egypt or invited to the USA, and so-called expatriate jazz musicians taking up residence in Europe. By sharing their research about jazz on TV, on records, and at festivals, the authors from different disciplines demonstrate how jazz studies today engage with movement in the music’s past to question and shape its future.
This collection of writings has its origins in the VI Rhythm Changes Conference “Jazz Journeys,” which took place in Graz (Austria) and where the International Society for Jazz Research celebrated its 50th anniversary.
CONTENTS
Vorwort / Foreword
Travel Stories: Metaphors of Journeying in Jazz
Alan Stanbridge
Musical Journeys to Iceland:
Foreign Impact on Local Music Life, 1920–1960
Þorbjörg Daphne Hall, Ásbjörg Jónsdóttir
Ambassador of the Blues:
Performing Diaspora with Memphis Slim in Europe
Lawrence Davies
Forecasting Inf luences of Israeli, Jewish, and Arab Music
on Israeli Jazz: Albert Piamenta and the First Israeli
Ethno-Jazz Record, Mezare Israel Yekabtzenu
Dan Cahn
The Historiography of Myths & the Racial Imagination:
Recontextualizing Joséphine Baker in the Jim Crow South
and the Third Reich
Kira Dralle
Jazz as a Way to Escape One’s Social “Destiny”:
Lessons from Professional Japanese Jazz Musicians
Marie Buscatto
No Jazz Without Festival?
Reconsidering the Festivalization of Jazz as Pilgrimage
Scott Currie
The Bad Plus Stravinsky: Metrical Displacement,
Segmentation, and Stratification in the Jazz Trio’s Original Works
Laura Emmery
The First Journey Back:
The International Youth Band, Newport 1958
Francesco Martinelli
Jazz Dance, Jazz Music, and Cultural Transference:
Changing Meanings of Jazz Across Generations
Harri Heinilä
Dig That Lick:
Exploring Patterns in Jazz with Computational Methods
Lucas Henry, Klaus Frieler, Gabriel Solis, Martin Pfleiderer,
Simon Dixon, Frank Höger, Tillman Weyde, Hélène-Camille Crayencour
Gladys Bentley: From “Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs”
to “Gender Nonconforming, Lesbian Superstar”
of the Harlem Renaissance
Magdalena Fuernkranz
Artistic Research in Jazz:
A Case Study in Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble
Emiliano Sampaio
Pyramids on the Red Square:
The Tours of the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra behind
the Iron Curtain and to the Middle East (1964–1966)
Bernd Hoffmann
Lessons from the Studio Floor:
New Critical Approaches to Jazz Television
Nicolas Pillai
Contributors
