Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the cultural mix through its significant impact on novelists, filmmakers, dancers, painters, biographers, and [...]
The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, "Jazz Among the Discourses" brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz. Challen[...]