Jazz worlds, world jazz
By: edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino
Series: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology; Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780226158082; 9780226236032
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Social aspects; Jazz; History and criticism
Description: Brings 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.
Notes: Companion CD contains 17 tracks of jazz performances from around the globe.

"Lyrics and translations": pages 473-477.

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