{"title":"Intertextuality and the Construction of Meaning in Jazz Worlds: A Case Study of Joe Farrell’s “Moon Germs”","authors":"A. Kluth","doi":"10.14713/jjs.v12i1.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/jjs.v12i1.117","url":null,"abstract":"(Opening paragraph): In this article, I invoke the concept of intermusicality as defined by Ingrid Monson and develop its role in meaning-making in musical worlds. Her groundbreaking book , Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (1996) offers a sophisticated criticism of jazz improvisation and the construction of meaning therein. In doing so, it explores methods by which to nuance and/or rupture traditional historiographies that construct the jazz canon. More than intermusicality, though, I look to a more general intertextuality as a hermeneutic window disruptive to the “great man” histories that have so often heretofore constructed the jazz tradition. I argue that the notion of intertextuality is particularly useful in mediating questions of essentialism in jazz (racial or otherwise) with considerations of practical competency and an artist’s particular situatedness in that body of texts. Working against positivist taxonomies resultant in definitions of what is/is not jazz, this perspective leaves space for the refiguring work of novelty and experimentation requisite therein. This resonates with Steven B. Elworth’s (1995) claim: “Far from being an unchanging and an easily understood historical field, the jazz tradition is a constantly transforming construction” (58). In my suspicion of linear ideas of history and “progress” (and therefore, telos), I prefer to interrogate and ratify instead the complicated relationship of novelty to tradition. The negotiation of these meta-categories is at the heart of the work improvising musicians do; combining disparate ways of being in the world with musical ideas and practices to create new musico-sociocultural wholes.","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133715103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion\" by Jason C. Bivins","authors":"B. Shelley","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I2.114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I2.114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122344451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Dance Floor Democracy: The Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen\" by Sherrie Tucker","authors":"Hannah Mackenzie-Margulies","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I2.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I2.115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126859622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flamenco Jazz: an Analytical Study","authors":"Peter Manuel","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I2.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I2.113","url":null,"abstract":"Since the 1990s, the hybrid genre of flamenco jazz has emerged as a dynamic and original entity in the realm of jazz, Spanish music, and the world music scene as a whole. Building on inherent compatibilities between jazz and flamenco, a generation of versatile Spanish musicians has synthesized the two genres in a wide variety of forms, creating in the process a coherent new idiom that can be regarded as a sort of mainstream flamenco jazz style. A few of these performers, such as pianist Chano Domínguez and wind player Jorge Pardo, have achieved international acclaim and become luminaries on the Euro-jazz scene. Indeed, flamenco jazz has become something of a minor bandwagon in some circles, with that label often being adopted, with or without rigor, as a commercial rubric to promote various sorts of productions (while conversely, some of the genre’s top performers are indifferent to the label1). Meanwhile, however, as increasing numbers of gifted performers enter the field and cultivate genuine and substantial syntheses of flamenco and jazz, the new genre has come to merit scholarly attention for its inherent vitality, richness, and significance in the broader jazz world. The Spanish jazz scene has been documented in a handful of publications (e.g., García Martínez 1996), a few authors have written on socio-musical aspects of the flamenco jazz scene (Iglesias 2005; Germán Herrero 1991; Lag-López 2006; Salinas Rodríguez 1994; Steingress 2004), and certain sorts of information regarding leading flamenco jazz performers are of course available on the internet. However, nothing has been published on flamenco jazz in the way of formal analytical studies except for two useful articles by Juan Zagalaz (2012a and 2012b) regarding the early fusion music of Jorge Pardo. The present article does not attempt to provide an ethnography of the flamenco jazz scene nor a historical survey of the genre replete with obligatory names and dates. Rather, it aims to","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127613880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaching the Jazz Past: MOPDTK’s Blue and Jason Moran’s “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959”","authors":"Tracy M McMullen","doi":"10.14713/jjs.v11i2.112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/jjs.v11i2.112","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes two approaches to the jazz past undertaken recently under the aegis of “jazz reenactment”: Mostly Other People Do the Killing’s 2014 release of Blue (a note-for-note re-performance of the Miles Davis Sextet’s 1959 album, Kind of Blue ) and Jason Moran’s multi-media re-visiting of Thelonious Monk’s 1959 Town Hall Concert, “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959.” I contend that rather than an ironic critique of the canonization of jazz, Blue is a direct product of the same tradition of understanding the past that informs such canonization. This tradition is based in an epistemology that privileges objectivity, logic, boundaries, and an obsession with naming while suspecting the subjective and what cannot be named. Jason Moran’s “In My Mind,” however, offers a different understanding of the past, one rooted in ambiguity and connection rather than delineation and separation. I argue that this latter understanding offers a necessary critique of conceptions of the past and of self and other found in the dominant Western worldview.","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116795017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Circular Thinking: A Roundtable on \"Blue in Green\" and \"Nefertiti\"","authors":"K. Waters, H. Martin, S. Larson, Steven Strunk","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I1.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I1.111","url":null,"abstract":"A roundtable featuring Keith Waters, Henry Martin, Steve Larson, and Steven Strunk. The talk frames general principles of circular tunes and explores two of them from the 1960s: \"Blue in Green\" and \"Nefertiti.\"","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131761656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phrase Rhythm in Standard Jazz Repertoire: A Taxonomy and Corpus Study","authors":"Keith Salley, D. Shanahan","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I1.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I1.107","url":null,"abstract":"Keith Salley and Dan Shanahan’s “Phrase Rhythm in Standard Jazz Repertoire: A Taxonomy and Corpus Study” reflects a number of Steven Strunk's scholarly interests. The authors encourage readers to consider how the layered analyses at the end of Strunk’s seminal “Harmony of Early Bop” article ( JJS 6.1) agree, depart from, or inform the processes discussed in their contribution. Furthermore, Salley and Shanahan’s broad stylistic survey of standard jazz tunes resonates notably with Strunk’s work—particularly his “Linear Intervallic Patterns in Jazz Repertory” ( ARJS 8) and his entry on “Harmony” in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz .","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133800175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Memoriam Steven Strunk (1943-2012)","authors":"H. Martin","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I1.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I1.109","url":null,"abstract":"Editor Henry Martin remembers jazz music theory scholar, pianist, composer, friend, and former Journal of Jazz Studies editorial board member, Steven Strunk, who passed on February 20, 2012.","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121946212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on (and in) Strunk's Tonnetz","authors":"Joon Park","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I1.108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I1.108","url":null,"abstract":"Joon Park takes a closer look at Steven Strunk's innovative application of the neo-Riemannian Tonnetz to jazz. Strunk reinterprets neo-Riemannian transformations as geometric reflections—as opposed to more conventional group theory operations—showing his understanding of jazz performance practice. Park clarifies the difference between conventional methods and Strunk's. In addition to illustrating Steve’s close accord with jazz performance practice, Park extends his work by representing Z-related sets on the Tonnetz.","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121543353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melodic Structure in Bill Evans's 1959 \"Autumn Leaves\"","authors":"Steven Strunk","doi":"10.14713/JJS.V11I1.110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14713/JJS.V11I1.110","url":null,"abstract":"Steven Strunk's analysis and transcription of Bill Evans's 1959 \"Autumn Leaves\" with an editorial preface by Keith Salley.","PeriodicalId":331183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jazz Studies","volume":"211 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121226893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}