Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era....Lasīt vairāk
Activating Voices in Jazz History: Students Broadening the Narrative highlights the research of students who have been challenged to assess and interpret evidence found in historical records and engage in field interviews with a diverse representati...Lasīt vairāk
Jazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections....Lasīt vairāk
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 cri...Lasīt vairāk
Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art to assert ones creativity, passion, and self-expressionestablishing it as an art form. This ethnographic survey contextualizes...Lasīt vairāk
Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally....Lasīt vairāk
Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques....Lasīt vairāk
From the Minds of Jazz Musicians, Volume II, is a follow-up to Volume Is celebration of contemporary jazz artists who have toiled, struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space....Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of Amrams work and influence, situating the composer in the context of todays international culture. It shows how Amrams proficiencies in spontaneous, on-stage music creation enriches his formal classical...Lasīt vairāk
A step-by-step resource on forging ones own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the readers genre of choice....Lasīt vairāk
Embodied Nostalgia is a collection of interlocking case studies that focus on how social dance in musical theatre brings forth the dancer on stage as a site of embodied history, cultural memory, and nostalgia, and asks what social dance is doing per...Lasīt vairāk
Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans jazz funeral to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the musics o...Lasīt vairāk
Ya-Hui Cheng examines the emergence of popular music genres - jazz, rock, and hip hop - in Chinese society, covering the social underpinnings that shaped the development of popular music in China and Taiwan, from imperialism to westernization and fr...Lasīt vairāk
Electro swing is a relatively recent musical style and scene which combines the music of the swing era with that of the age of electronic dance music....Lasīt vairāk
Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses especially those of academic analysis and journalistic...Lasīt vairāk
Based on interviews, conversations, and observations drawn from extensive field research, Jazz in Contemporary China: Shifting Sounds, Rising Scenes explores the current developments and conditions of Chinese jazz....Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on an extensive, four-year field research project, including ethnographic observations and 27 in-depth interviews, this book is the first to explore the hidden diasporic narrative(s) of Hungarian jazz through the system of historically forme...Lasīt vairāk
Encounters with Jazz on Television in Cold War Era Portugal: 1954-1974 explores the relationship between jazz and television by investigating the experiences of performers and producers in one of the last European colonial states (Portugal) during a...Lasīt vairāk
