1st Edition

Jazz Diaspora Music and Globalisation

By Bruce Johnson Copyright 2020
218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Jazz Diaspora:   Music and Globalisation  is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes of the global jazz diaspora and its implications for jazz historiography in general, arguing for its relevance to the fields of sonic studies and cognitive theory. Until the late twentieth century, the... Read more

PART 1, First Eight: Global Jazz Diaspora

Chapter 1 Global Jazz Diaspora: A Chronicle

PART 2, Second Eight: Products of the Diaspora

Chapt 2 Discourses and Infrastructures

Chapt 3 Local forms and syncretisms

PART 3: Bridge: Anomalies

Chapt 4 Problematics

PART 4, Last Eight: Counternarratives and Further Directions

Chapt 5 Alternative Methodologies

Chapt 6 Conclusions, Future Directions

Biography

Bruce Johnson is Adjunct Professor in the School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney, Visiting Professor and Docent in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland, and also Visiting Professor in the Department of Music at University of Glasgow.

"... provides abundant evidence that jazz of indisputable originality has emerged in the various diasporas around the world.... Bruce Johnson’s critique of the US-centred model is timely food for thought."

–Eric Myers, The Australian