Jazz is a globalized music, featuring the voices of musicians with different musical and sociocultural backgrounds as well as different national, ethnic and gender identities – yet, canonical jazz histories have often been limited to U. S.-centered narratives focusing on a few male instrumentalists. In contrast, this collection of papers originating at the 12th International Jazz Research Conference in Graz reflects on the plurality of different historical and contemporary jazz voices and makes them visible from different research perspectives. Topics range from historical exchanges between jazz and Portuguese fado music to the struggles of Austrian vocal jazz graduates in the marketplace and the difficulties faced by female jazz musicians trying to make their voices heard in a patriarchical jazz world. This volume further reflects on current academic trends in jazz research, discussing the possibilities of artistic research in jazz and formulating the need for jazz studies to deal with issues concerning popular music.



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



The (Missing) Voices of Female Jazz Musicians

in Austrian Jazz Historiography:

The Cases of Vera Auer and Ursula Anders

Magdalena Fuernkranz



The Jazz Artist's Knowing Voice in Historical Contexts:

From Historically Informed Practice to Artistic Research

Michael Kahr



The Voices of Four Women in Their Autobiographies

Kornél Zipernovszky



Graduation... Then What?

A Qualitative, Empirical Study of Jazz and Pop Vocal Arts Graduates

Entering the Austrian Music Labor Market

Eva Krisper



Jazz in fado / Fado in Jazz:

Encounters Between Jazz and fado in Portugal

Pedro Cravinho



"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered":

Being a Female Jazz Journalist and Promoter

at the Dead Center of Androcentrism

Eray Aytimur



Find Your Own Voice:

The Music and Improvisational Philosophy of Wayne Krantz

Lukas Proyer



Balls Hit to Mid-Court:

Mapping the No-Man's-Land Between Jazz Studies

and Popular Music Studies

André Doehring



Contributors