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 criticism. It rests on the argument that diasporic jazz is not a passive, second-hand reflection of music originating in the US, but possesses its own integrity, vitality, and distinctive range of identities. This companion reveals the contradictions of cultural globalization from which diasporic jazz cultures emerge, through 45 chapters within seven thematic parts:
What is Diasporic Jazz?
Histories and Counter-Narratives
Making, Disseminating, and Consuming Diasporic Jazz
Culture, Politics, and Ideology
Communities and Distinctions
Presenting and Representing Diasporic Jazz
Challenges and New Directions
The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies traces how cultural dynamics related to "race", coloniality, gender, and politics traverse and shape jazz. Employing a cross section of approaches to the study of diasporic jazz as eloquently showcased by the entries, this book seeks to challenge the dominant jazz narratives through championing a more all-encompassing, multi-paradigmatic alternative. Bringing together contributions from authors all over the world, this volume is a vital resource for scholars of jazz, as well as professionals in the music industries and those interested in learning about the cultural and historical origins of jazz.
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 criticism.
Preface
Part 1: What is Diasporic Jazz?
1. Tony Whyton: Jazz as Diaspora Space
2. Christopher Ballantine: What is Jazz? Categories, Passages,
Contradictions and Power
3. Jonathan Wipplinger: Ways of Conceptualising the Global Jazz Diaspora
4. Philipp Schmickl: Rethinking Diaspora in Diasporic Jazz
5. Carol Muller: Diaspora in South African Jazz History and Contemporary
Performance
6. Mikkel Vad: The Diaspora Swings Back: Expat Jazz Musicians in Europe and
their Return Home to the United States
7. Įdįm Havas: Identity Politics and Diasporic Jazz: Reflections from the
European Semi-Periphery
Part 2: Histories and Counter-Narratives
8. Catherine Tackley: Snakehips Swing: The West Indian Contribution to
British Dance Band Music
9. Federico Ochoa Escobar: Jazz Diaspora and the Colombian Caribbean: From
the Jazz Band to the Big Band
10. Jason R. Borge: Booker T. Pittman and the Mid-Twentieth Century South
American Jazz Diaspora
11. Martin Breternitz: Individuality in Collectivism Jazz Clubs in the GDR
as Nonconformist Diasporic Institutions
12. Aleisha Ward: Real Dance Music in Your Town Soon! The Importance of
Jazz as Dance Music in Aotearoa New Zealand 1920s-1940s
13. John Whiteoak: Jazz Diaspora, Latin Musical Influences and Australia
Part 3: Making, Disseminating and Consuming Diasporic Jazz
14. Pekka Gronow: Music Industry and the Media
15. Mischa van Kan: Public Broadcasting Companies and Jazz Outside of the
United States
16. Haftor Medbųe and José Dias: First Monday Revisited: Production and
Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age
17. Ryan Gourley: Soviet jazz on American Vinyl: Consuming Diasporic Jazz at
Home
18. Franēois Mouillot: LAutre Musique du Québec: Musique Actuelle and the
Making of an Experimental Jazz Scene in Quebec
19. Otto Stuparitz: Forum Jazz Indonesia: Organizing and Branding Indonesian
Jazz Festivals
Part 4: Culture, Politics and Ideology
20. Frederick J. Schenker: The Making of Jazz in Colonial Asia: Imperial
Legacies
21. Alexander Gagatsis: Jazz in the Global Arena: The Case of Colonized
Bombay, 1920-1947
22. Yoshiomi Saito| : Jazz in Japan: From Post-war US-Japan Relations
Perspective
23. Michael J. Kellett, Dave Wilson, Robert L. Burke: Settler Colonization
and Austrological Improvisative Musicality Since the Late Nineteenth Century
24. Ricardo Įlvarez Bulacio: Jazz with Mapuche Inspiration: Identities and
Political Links in Contemporary Chilean Jazz
25. Stan BH Tan-Tangbau: Patient Infusion: Strategies of Community Formation
in the Vietnamese Jazz Scene
Part 5: Communities and Distinctions
26. Jiang Yuhan | : Becoming Cultural Elites in China: Jazz, Modernization
and Professionalism
27. Eric Petzoldt: Jauk Armand Elmaleh-Lemal and the Casablanca Jazz Scene of
the 1950s and 1960s
28. Lauren Istvandity: DIY Jazz Cultures in Queensland, Australia
29. Simon Petty: The Isle s Full of Noises: Tasmanias Unique Jazz Identity
30. Robert Smith: Improvised Music in Wales
31. Pedro Cravinho: Urban Jazz Scenes in Portugal: Culture, Spaces and
Networks
32. Pedro Roxo and Tiago Pereira Simões: Conceptual Jazz and Jazz-Off:
Avant-garde, Globalization and Personal Interpretations of Jazz in Portugal
The Legacy of Jorge Lima Barreto (1968-1974)
33. Petter Frost Fadnes: Jazz City Pigeonics: Jazzloftet as a Diasporic
Ground Zero
Part 6: Presenting and Representing Diasporic Jazz
34. Marie Buscatto: Beyond Frontiers: From Japanese Traditional Koto to
Transnational Improvised Music
35. Marc Duby: Säd Afrika: Django Bates and the South African Imaginary
1985-2012
36. Alex de Lacey: Bridging the Gap: Re-rendering Jazz Practice in Londons
Displaced Diasporas
37. Roger Fagge: Angry Young Men, Jazz and Englishness
38. José Dias: Centre-Periphery relations and European Jazz Identities
39. Josep Pedro and Begońa Gutiérrez-Martķnez: Jazz in Spanish Film Noir:
Modernity and Youth Cultures During Late Francoism
Part 7: Challenges and New Directions
40. Robert G. H. Burns: Indigeneity Meets Improvisation as Free Jazz: A
Musical Directors/Editors Perspective
41. Andrew Wright Hurley: Jazz as Postwar West-German Cultural Catalyst and
African American Resistance
42. Haftor Medbųe, Diane Maclean and Sarah Raine: Vivid Stories: Oral
Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene
43. André Doehring: Diasporic jazz Among the Disciplines
44. Walter van de Leur: Is Jazz in Europe European Jazz? Countries,
Continents, and Cultural Ownership
45. Bruce Johnson: Diasporic jazz and the material turn: A Case Study
Įdįm Havas is a Marie Skodowska-Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona (2022-2024) and a member of The Center for the Study of Culture, Politics, and Society (CECUPS) in the Universitys Sociology Department. From October 2024 he will be an international fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI).
Bruce Johnson currently holds honorary professorships in various departments, including Music, Cultural History, Communications and Media at the University of Glasgow and the University of Turku (Finland); and at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of New South Wales in Australia.
David Horn was the first Director of the Institute of Popular Music (IPM) at the University of Liverpool.
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