Works on Jazz

Recent Scholarship (2005)

Ansell, Gwen. Soweto Blues: Jazz and Politics in South Africa.
         Continuum International Publishing Group(October).

Austerlitz, Paul. Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity.
         Wesleyan University Press(September).

Borshuk, Michael. Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American
         Modernist Literature. Routledge (October).

Burns, Mick. Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band
         Renaissance. Louisiana State University Press
         (October)

Cole, George. Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991.
         University of Michigan Press (March).

Curtis, Susan. Dancing to a Black Man’s Tune. University of Missouri
         Press (September).

Driggs, Frank, and Charles Haddix. Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to
         Bebop, A History. Oxford University Press (May).

Dupuis, Robert. Bunny Berigan: Elusive Legend of Jazz. LSU Press
         (March).

Goins, Wayne, and Craig McKinney. A Biography of Charlie Christian,
         Jazz Guitar's King of Swing. Edwin Mellen Press (July).

Grandt, Jurgen. Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American
         Narrative. Ohio State University Press (June).

Gushee, Lawrence. Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band.
         Oxford University Press (May).

Hefley, Mike. Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe’s Reinvention of
         Jazz. Yale University Press (May).

Ind, Peter. Jazz Visions: Lennie Tristano and His Legacy. Equinox
         Publishing (September).

Kenney, William Howland. Jazz on the River. University of Chicago
         Press (April).

Kirchner, Bill, ed. Oxford Companion to Jazz. Oxford University Press
         (July).

Koerksen, Clifford J. American Babel: Rouge Radio Broadcasters of the
         Jazz Age. University of Pennsylvania Press (June).

Lion, Jean Pierre. Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend.
         Continuum International Publishing Company (June).

Majer, Gerald. Velvet Lounge: Essays on Late Chicago Jazz. Columbia
         University Press (July).

Martin, Henry, and Keith Waters. Jazz: The First 100 Years.
         Wadsworth (March, 2nd ed.).

Nettelbeck, Colin. Dancing with de Beauvoir : Jazz and the French.
         Melbourne University Publishing (April).

Nolan, Rose M. Hoecakes, Hambone, and All that Jazz: African American
         Traditions in Missouri. University of Missouri Press (November).

Parsonage, Catherine. The Evolution of Jazz in Britain: 1880-1935.
         Ashgate Publishing Company (October).

Pond, Steven F. Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz’s First Platinum
         Album. University of Michigan Press (October).

Saul, Scott. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the
         Sixties. Harvard University Press (November).

Spencer, Frederick J. Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats.
         University Press of Mississippi (September).

Stanfield, Peter. Body and Soul: Jazz, Blues, and Rock in American
         Film, 1927-1963. University of Illinois Press (August).

Stoddard, Tom. The Autobiography of Pops Foster : New Orleans Jazz
         Man. Backbeat Books (February).

Stokes, W. Royal, ed. Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk
         About their Lives and Careers. Oxford University Press (March).

Vail, Ken. Swing Era Scrapbook: The Teenage Diaries and Radio Logs of
         Bob Inman, 1936-1938. Scarecrow Press (June).

Von Eschen, Penny M. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors
          Play the World. Harvard University Press
         (December 2004).

Yaffe, David. Reading Jazz in American Writing. Princeton University
         Press (November).

Yanow, Scott. Jazz: A Regional Exploration (Greenwood Guides to
         American Roots Music). Greenwood Press (February).