Jazz Worlds/World Jazz
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George E. Lewis
Acknowledgments
Sound Examples on the Accompanying CD
Introduction
Goffredo Plastino and Philip V. Bohlman
Part I Place
1 Jazz and the Politics of Home in Scandinavia
Fabian Holt
2 Swinging in Balkan Mode: On the Innovative Approach of Milcho Leviev
Claire Levy
3 Azerbaijani Mugham Jazz
Inna Naroditskaya
4 Jazz and Its Social Meanings in Iran: From Cultural Colonialism to the Universal
Laudan Nooshin
Part II History
5 Jazz at the Edge of Empire
Philip V. Bohlman
6 That Gypsy in France: Django Reinhardt’s Occupation Blouze
Andy Fry
7 Jazz, Race, and Politics in Colonial Portugal: Discourses and Representations
Pedro Roxo and Salwa El- Shawan Castelo-Branco
Part III Media
8 Traveling Music: Mulatu Astatke and the Genesis of Ethiopian Jazz
Kay Kaufman Shelemay
9 The Medium Is the Message? Jazz Diplomacy and the Democratic Imagination
Richard C. Jankowsky
10 Musical Echoes: Diasporic Listening and the Creation of a World of South African Jazz
Carol Ann Muller
Part IV Globalization/Indigenization
11 Jazz Napoletano: A Passion for Improvisation
Goffredo Plastino
12 In Search of Compatible Virtuosities: Floating Point and Fusion in India
Niko Higgins
13 Improvising Diasporan Identities: Armenian Jazz
Anahid Kassabian
Part V Race
14 Culture, Commodity, Palimpsest: Locating Jazz in the World
Travis A. Jackson
15 A World(ly) Jazz Autonomy: Hazel Scott and Hollywood’s Racial-Musical Matrix
Kristin McGee
16 Black Music’s Body Politics
Ronald Radano
Epilogue: Jazz: Music of the Multitude?
Richard Middleton
Lyrics and Translations
Contributors
Index
Association for Recorded Sound Collections: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence
Finalist
American Musicological Society: Ruth A. Solie Award
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