• Creates a defining narrative on the history and programming of jazz on television and contributes to the emerging literature on jazz and the media; • Focuses on the cultural politics of jazz on television, exploring the relationship between jazz and a state control television in the twentieth century • Collates primary sources relevant to the understanding of a single jazz location – Portugal --and its relationship to international television jazz production in the US and Western Europe • Challenges dominant historical jazz narratives regarding the status of jazz on television and its dissemination within the public sphere.

* Creates a defining narrative on the history and programming of jazz on television and contributes to the emerging literature on jazz and the media; * Focuses on the cultural politics of jazz on television, exploring the relationship between jazz and a state control television in the twentieth century * Collates primary sources relevant to the understanding of a single jazz location - Portugal --and its relationship to international television jazz production in the US and Western Europe * Challenges dominant historical jazz narratives regarding the status of jazz on television and its dissemination within the public sphere.