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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz (Paperback)
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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz (Paperback)
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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. Monumental in scope, this book explores the relationship
between jazz and culture and how they influence each other across a
range of themes and settings. Contributors offer an analysis of the
social meaning of jazz in Iran, a look at the genesis of Ethiopian
jazz and at Indian fusion, and chapters on jazz diplomacy, Balkan
swing, and that French export par excellence: Django Reinhardt.
Altogether the contributors approach jazz--in these global
iterations--through the themes that have always characterized it at
home: place, history, mobility, media, and race. The result is a
first-of-its-kind map of jazz around the globe that pays tribute to
the players who have given the form its seemingly infinite
possibilities.
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