[ecrea] Book announcement: Jazz Worlds

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JAZZ WORLDS / WORLDS JAZZ, edited by P. Bohlman and G. Plastino
University of Chicago Press 2016

Many regard jazz as the soundtrack of America, born and raised in its 
cities and echoing throughout its tumultuous century of progress. So 
when Ernest Hemingway wrote about seeing jazz in 1920s Paris, and when 
British colonial officials danced to jazz in the clubs of Calcutta in 
the waning years of the Raj, how, exactly, had it gotten there? Jazz 
Worlds/World Jazz aims to answer these questions and more, bringing 
together voices from countries as far flung as Azerbaijan, Armenia, and 
India to show that the story of jazz is not trapped in American history 
books but alive in global modernity

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword. Who is jazz? / George E. Lewis

Introduction / Goffredo Plastino and Philip V. Bohlman

PLACE
1. Jazz and the politics of home in Scandinavia / Fabian Holt
2. Swinging in Balkan mode: on the innovative approach of Milcho Leviev 
/ Claire Levy
3. Azerbaijani Mugham jazz / Inna Naroditskaya
4. Jazz and its social meanings in Iran: from cultural colonialism to 
the universal / Laudan Nooshin

HISTORY
Jazz at the edge of empire / Philip V. Bohlman
That Gypsy in France: Django Reinhardt's occupation blouze / Andy Fry
Jazz, race, and politics in colonial Portugal: discourses and 
representations / Pedro Roxo and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

MEDIA
Traveling music: Mulatu Astatke and the genesis of Ethiopian jazz / Kay 
Kaufman Shelemay
The medium is the message? Jazz diplomacy and the democratic imagination 
/ Richard C. Jankowsky
Musical echoes: Diasporic listening and the creation of a world of South 
African jazz / Carol Ann Muller

GLOBALIZATION INDIGENIZATION
Jazz Napoletano: a passion for improvisation / Goffredo Plastino
In search of compatible virtuosities: floating point and fusion in India 
/ Niko Higgins
Improvising diasporan identities: Armenian jazz / Anahid Kassabian

RACE
Culture, commodity, palimpsest: locating jazz in the world / Travis A. 
Jackson
A world(ly) jazz autonomy: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial 
matrix / Kristin McGee
Black music's body politics / Ronald Radano

EPILOGUE
Jazz: music of the multitude? / Richard Middleton


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