The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies presents articles from internationally renowned scholars and highlights the strengths of current jazz scholarship in a cross-disciplinary field of enquiry.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Images
• List of Tables
• List of Examples
• List of Contributors
• Preface - Nicholas Gebhardt, Nichole Rustin-Paschal, and Tony Whyton
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Historical Perspectives
• Wilkie's Story: Dominant Histories, Hidden Musicians, and Cosmopolitan Connections in Jazz - Tony Whyton
• Diasporic Jazz - Bruce Johnson
• I Like to Recognize the Tune: Interrupting Jazz and Musical Theater Histories - Julianne Lindberg
• “That Ain't No Creole, It's a…!”: Masquerade, Marketing, and Shapeshifting Race in Early New Orleans Jazz - Bruce Boyd Raeburn
• Jazz Education: Historical and Critical Perspectives - Ken Prouty
• Swan Songs: Jazz, Death, and Famous Last Concerts - Walter van de Leur
• Jazz on Radio - Tim Wall
• Part II: Methodologies
• After Wynton: Narrating Jazz in the Postneotraditional Era - David Ake
• Jazz and the Material Turn - Floris Schuiling
• Jazz Meets Pop in the United Kingdom - Catherine Tackley
• On Billboard, Isaac Hayes, and the “Swinging Relationship” Between Jazz and Its Popular Music Cousins, 1950–1973 - John Howland
• “Wacky Post-Fluxus Revolutionary Mixed Media Shenanigans”: Rethinking Jazz and Jazz Studies Through Jason Moran's Multimedia Performance - John Gennari
• Conceptualizing Jazz as a Cultural Practice in Soviet Estonia - Heli Reimann
• And Then I Don't Feel So Bad: Jazz, Sentimentality, and Popular Song - Alan Stanbridge
• Part III: Core Issues and Topics
• Space and Place in Jazz - Andrew Berish
• Time in Jazz - Mark Doffman
• Jazz and Disability - George McKay
• Race in the New Jazz Studies - Patrick Burke
• The Vocalized Tone - Tom Perchard
• Jazz and the Recording Process - Benjamin Bierman
• Figuring Improvisation - Peter Elsdon
• Listening for Empire in Transnational Jazz Studies - Frederick J. Schenker
• Part IV: Individuals, Collectives, and Communities
• New Orleans, the “Creole Concept,” and Jazz - Wolfram Knauer
• Sitting In and Subbing Out: The Gig Economy of 1960s New York - Marian Jago
• George Lewis's Voyager - Paul Steinbeck
• Quiet About It—Jazz in Japan - Michael Pronko
• Performing Improvisation: Bill Evans and Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Deborah Mawer
• Bossa Nova and Beyond: The Jazz as Symbol of Brazilian-Ness - Eduardo Vicente
• Individuals, Collectives, and Communities: Festivals and Festivalization: The Shaping Influence of a Jazz Institution - Scott Currie
• Part V: Politics, Discourse, and Ideology
• The Birth of Jazz Diplomacy: American Jazz in Italy, 1945–1963 - Anna Harwell Celenza
• Jazzing for a Better Future: South Africa and Beyond - Christopher Ballantine
• Eric Hobsbawm - Roger Fagge
• Jazz at the Crossroads of Art and Popular Music Discourses in the 1960s - David Brackett
• The Rhetoric of Jazz - Gregory Clark
• Unfinalizable: Dialog and Self-Expression in Jazz - Charles Hersch
• Improvisation: What Is It Good for? - Raymond MacDonald and Graeme Wilson
• Friends and Neighbors: Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics - Nicholas Gebhardt
• Part VI: New Directions and Debates
• “The Reason I Play the Way I Do Is”: Jazzmen, Emotion, and Creating in Jazz - Nichole Rustin-Paschal
• The Art of Improvisation in the Age of Computational Participation - David Borgo
• Renaissance or Afterlife? Nostalgia in the New Jazz Films - Björn Heile
• Comics as Criticism: Harvey Pekar, Jazz Writer - Nicolas Pillai
• Free Spirits: The Performativity of Free Improvisation - Petter Frost Fadnes
• My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia - Simon Barber
• Writing the Jazz Life - Krin Gabbard