Jazz (The Library of Essays on Popular Music)

The featured articles in this volume provide an overview of jazz studies writings from the 1990s to the present day, and each text engages with issues that are central to the changing discourse of jazz in popular culture. The volume includes studies of specific scenes, artists and periods from jazz history, and also comments on broader aspects of musical discourse, from ontological considerations to the politics of canon formation, from issues of representation to international perspectives. The collection encourages readers to engage in comparative thinking and analysis, and contributions touch on a range of themes that will be of interest to scholars who situate jazz at the heart of popular music studies. It is a highly valuable resource for researchers, enthusiasts, teachers and students.

Tony Whyton is Reader in Music in the School of Media, Music and Performance at the University of Salford. He is the author of Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition, Cambridge University Press (2010) and the project leader for the HERA-funded research programme Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities. Tony was the founding editor of the interdisciplinary journal The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism and co-edits the internationally peer-reviewed Jazz Research Journal.