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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is a significant contribution to jazz studies the essays here are provocative, perceptive, and original. As a whole, the book presents a critically informed and broadly theorized set of perspectives on jazz (and music) around the world, offering a nuanced and balanced perspective to understanding how global jazz practices have taken shape over the years. --Charles Hiroshi Garrett, editor in chief of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition In this book, the authors have gone much further than simply recognizing that jazz is located differently in cultures outside of the United States; they have transformed our understanding of those cultures and what jazz has meant to and for the people who inhabit them. In seeking to locate jazz in the world, and to map the multiple worlds of jazz, this book manages to redefine the possibilities and politics of the field. This is a major achievement for jazz scholarship. --Nicholas Gebhardt, author of Going for Jazz In this book, the authors have gone much further than simply recognizing that jazz is located differently in cultures outside of the United States; they have transformed our understanding of those cultures and what jazz has meant to and for the people who inhabit them. In seeking to locate jazz in the world, and to map the multiple worlds of jazz, this book manages to redefine the possibilities and politics of the field. This is a major achievement for jazz scholarship. --Nicholas Gebhardt, author of Going for Jazz Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is a significant contribution to jazz studies--the essays here are provocative, perceptive, and original. As a whole, the book presents a critically informed and broadly theorized set of perspectives on jazz (and music) around the world, offering a nuanced and balanced perspective to understanding how global jazz practices have taken shape over the years. --Charles Hiroshi Garrett, editor in chief of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is a significant contribution to jazz studies the essays here are provocative, perceptive, and original. As a whole, the book presents a critically informed and broadly theorized set of perspectives on jazz (and music) around the world, offering a nuanced and balanced perspective to understanding how global jazz practices have taken shape over the years. --Charles Hiroshi Garrett, editor in chief of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is valuable for the critical lens that the assembled ethnomusicologists bring to bear on local music practices, which targets issues of race/ethnicity, nationalism, gender/sexuality, identity politics, mediation, globalization/indigenization, historiography, canonization, socioeconomics, and the like. . . . The accompanying compact disc of musical examples, referred to in the text, further illustrates and clarifies the discourse --Notes Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is a fine introduction to different ways of looking at and learning to play jazz. And it certainly provides an alternate narrative to the cliched story of the music migrating up the river from New Orleans to points north and then suddenly and miraculously easily disseminating all over the world. --Music Works

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is a significant contribution to jazz studies the essays here are provocative, perceptive, and original. As a whole, the book presents a critically informed and broadly theorized set of perspectives on jazz (and music) around the world, offering a nuanced and balanced perspective to understanding how global jazz practices have taken shape over the years. --Charles Hiroshi Garrett, editor in chief of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition

<i>Jazz Worlds/World Jazz</i> is a significant contribution to jazz studies the essays here are provocative, perceptive, and original. As a whole, the book presents a critically informed and broadly theorized set of perspectives on jazz (and music) around the world, offering a nuanced and balanced perspective to understanding how global jazz practices have taken shape over the years. --Charles Hiroshi Garrett, editor in chief of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition

Jazz Worlds/World Jazz is a significant contribution to jazz studies the essays here are provocative, perceptive, and original. As a whole, the book presents a critically informed and broadly theorized set of perspectives on jazz (and music) around the world, offering a nuanced and balanced perspective to understanding how global jazz practices have taken shape over the years. --Charles Hiroshi Garrett, editor in chief of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, Second Edition

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Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of many books, including Jewish Musical Modernism and Music and the Racial Imagination, and coeditor of the Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology series, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Goffredo Plastino is a reader in ethnomusicology in the school of arts and cultures at Newcastle University. He is the editor of Mediterranean Mosaic and coeditor of Made in Italy and Neapolitan Postcards.

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