Jazz Journeys

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 Contributors