The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the
first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes,
Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of
disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing
and thinking about jazz. Challenging "official jazz histories," the
contributors to this volume view jazz through the lenses of
comparative literature; African American studies; music, film, and
communication theory; English literature; American studies;
history; and philosophy. With uncommon rigor and imagination, their
essays probe the influence of various discourses-journalism,
scholarship, politics, oral history, and entertainment-on writing
about jazz. Employing modes of criticism and theory that have
transformed study in the humanities, they address questions seldom
if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of
building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record?
Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art? How
is an African American aesthetic articulated through the music?
What are the consequences of the interaction between the critic and
the jazz artist? How does the improvising artist navigate between
chaos and discipline? Along with its companion volume, Representing
Jazz, this versatile anthology marks the arrival of jazz studies as
a mature, intellectually independent discipline. Its rethinking of
conventional jazz discourse will further strengthen the position of
jazz studies within the academy.Contributors. John Corbett, Steven
B. Elworth, Krin Gabbard, Bernard Gendron, William Howland Kenney,
Eric Lott, Nathaniel Mackey, Burton Peretti, Ronald M. Radano, Jed
Rasula, Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Walser
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