1st Edition
Women and Jazz European Perspectives from Researchers and Artists
Foreword
Sara Serpa
Preface
José Dias and Christa Bruckner-Haring
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Breaking Barriers: Women’s Voices in Jazz Research and Performance
José Dias and Christa Bruckner-Haring
Chapter 2. Female Jazz Musicians in European Jazz Historiography
Magdalena Fürnkranz
Joëlle Léandre
Interview by Marie Buscatto
Paula Sousa
Interview by Beatriz Nunes
Monika Herzig
Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz
Gina Schwarz
Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz
Chapter 3. Out of Place: The Importance of Female Role Models in Jazz Education
Beatriz Nunes
Airelle Besson
Interview by Marie Buscatto
Beatriz Félix
Interview by Beatriz Nunes
Inge Katharina Pechoc
Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz
Romarna Campbell
Interview by Sarah Raine
Chapter 4. Harmonizing Motherhood, Reimagining Identity, Support Networks, and Gender Equity in Jazz
Lee Ellen Martin
Giedrė Kilčiauskienė
Interview by Daina Urbanavičienė
Béatrice Graf
Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher
Anne Paceo
Interview by Marie Buscatto
Yazz Ahmed
Interview by Sarah Raine
Judith Schwarz
Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz
Chapter 5. Working Together: Support Systems Beyond the Homosocial Jazz Networks
Sarah Raine
Veronika Čičinskaitė-Golovanova
Interview by Daina Urbanavičienė
Anoushka Nanguy
Interview by Sarah Raine
Sophie Alour
Interview by Marie Buscatto
Marena Whitcher
Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher
Chapter 6. “The Guys Didn’t Call to Offer Me Gigs”: Gender Dynamics in the Icelandic Jazz Scene
Þorbjörg Daphne Hall
Alicia Gardener-Trejo
Interview by José Dias
Luzia von Wyl
Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher
Viktorija Gečytė
Interview by Daina Urbanavičienė
Lara Jones
Interview by Sarah Raine
Chapter 7. Artistic Research in Jazz: Can You Hear That I Am a Woman?
Jasna Jovićević
Neda Malūnavičiūtė
Interview by Daina Urbanavičienė
Iro Haarla
Interview by Elina Hytänen-Ng
Hilaria Kramer
Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher
Susana Santos Silva
Interview by Beatriz Nunes
Chapter 8. When Female Jazz Instrumentalists Make It “Anyway”…
Marie Buscatto
Chapter 9. Outlook
José Dias and Christa Bruckner-Haring
Afterword
Loes Rusch
Biography
José Dias is a musician and researcher, currently serving as Assistant Professor in Critical Practices at Coventry University. He has authored Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities (2019) and Festa do Jazz (2020), and directed the documentary Those Who Make It Happen (2016). As a musician and composer, Dias has toured and recorded extensively and scored music for animation, film and television, as well as theatre and contemporary dance.
Christa Bruckner‑Haring is an Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of the Institute for Jazz and Popular Music Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she is also co‑editor of the publication series Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, Beiträge zur Jazzforschung/Studies in Jazz Research, and Jazz Research News. Her work has appeared in such publications as Transnational Studies in Jazz, Jazz Research Journal, Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, European Journal of Musicology, the encyclopaedia MGG, and her monograph Gonzalo Rubalcaba und die kubanische Musik (2015).
"How painful but also how uplifting it feels to read about this topic, which is presented with thoroughness and care. Of course, this is a timely publication. Examining the experiences of being a female jazz musician in Europe in 2021/ 2022, most of those involved, appropriately, are female. The researcher-academics’ chapters alternate with clusters of interviews with the musicians, the voices of the latter jumping off the page, the conversational style and the poignancy of their stories leavening the academics’ formalised language. More research is clearly needed, again keeping musicians’ voices firmly central-field. This book is a terrific contribution to this field and to supporting all genders in having ‘a fair go’ at a career in jazz. They and all of society deserve no less."
Fiona Mactaggart
