Jazz is a music of journeys, migration, and global mobility – from the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade to global travels for escape, exchange, or putting down roots. Having migrated via changing modes of transportation and media communication, the sounds, musicians, and theories of jazz have led to today's diasporic jazz world of global and local encounters. This book features articles that deal with jazz in various geographic areas such as Japan or Israel, orchestras travelling to Egypt or invited to the USA, and so-called expatriate jazz musicians taking up residence in Europe. By sharing their research about jazz on TV, on records, and at festivals, the authors from different disciplines demonstrate how jazz studies today engage with movement in the music's past to question and shape its future.



This collection of writings has its origins in the VI Rhythm Changes Conference "Jazz Journeys," which took place in Graz (Austria) and where the International Society for Jazz Research celebrated its 50th anniversary.



Christa Bruckner-Haring is a musicologist specializing in jazz and popular music research and deputy director of the Institute for Jazz Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Her research focuses on historical and sociocultural issues as well as musical transcription and analysis of jazz and popular music.



André Doehring, musicologist and sociologist, is professor for jazz and popular music research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and director of the Institute for Jazz Research. His research and publications focus on sociohistorical, cultural, political, and media aspects of jazz and popular music as well as musical analysis.



Vorwort / Foreword



Travel Stories: Metaphors of Journeying in Jazz

Alan Stanbridge



Musical Journeys to Iceland:

Foreign Impact on Local Music Life, 1920–1960

Þorbjörg Daphne Hall, Ásbjörg Jónsdóttir



Ambassador of the Blues:

Performing Diaspora with Memphis Slim in Europe

Lawrence Davies



Forecasting Inf luences of Israeli, Jewish, and Arab Music

on Israeli Jazz: Albert Piamenta and the First Israeli

Ethno-Jazz Record, Mezare Israel Yekabtzenu

Dan Cahn



The Historiography of Myths & the Racial Imagination:

Recontextualizing Joséphine Baker in the Jim Crow South

and the Third Reich

Kira Dralle



Jazz as a Way to Escape One's Social "Destiny":

Lessons from Professional Japanese Jazz Musicians

Marie Buscatto



No Jazz Without Festival?

Reconsidering the Festivalization of Jazz as Pilgrimage

Scott Currie



The Bad Plus Stravinsky: Metrical Displacement,

Segmentation, and Stratification in the Jazz Trio's Original Works

Laura Emmery



The First Journey Back:

The International Youth Band, Newport 1958

Francesco Martinelli



Jazz Dance, Jazz Music, and Cultural Transference:

Changing Meanings of Jazz Across Generations

Harri Heinilä



Dig That Lick:

Exploring Patterns in Jazz with Computational Methods

Lucas Henry, Klaus Frieler, Gabriel Solis, Martin Pfleiderer,

Simon Dixon, Frank Höger, Tillman Weyde, Hélène-Camille Crayencour



Gladys Bentley: From "Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs"

to "Gender Nonconforming, Lesbian Superstar"

of the Harlem Renaissance

Magdalena Fuernkranz



Artistic Research in Jazz:

A Case Study in Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble

Emiliano Sampaio



Pyramids on the Red Square:

The Tours of the Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra behind

the Iron Curtain and to the Middle East (1964–1966)

Bernd Hoffmann



Lessons from the Studio Floor:

New Critical Approaches to Jazz Television

Nicolas Pillai



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