Jazz and Culture

05/06/2024

***Call for Papers, Special Issue: The Power of Geri Allen, Volume 2***

Abstract/Proposals due: August 1st, 2024

04/19/2024

**CALL FOR PAPERS!**

Abstracts due Wednesday, May 15!

04/12/2024

A Visiting Assistant Professor position in Jazz Studies has just been posted at Pitt for next year. This position is a late replacement and has a short deadline (three weeks!) - so please share widely!!

I'm happy to answer any questions from potential applicants as well.

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

11/21/2023

NEW ISSUE ALERT! Special issue on Jazz Across Screen Media: Representation, Rearrangement, and Reperformance, curated by guest editor Kate Galloway!

08/09/2023

We're delighted to see ken tianyuan Ge's recent Jazz and Culture article (Ship of Darkness: Jazz and/as Affect in the Global Cruise Industry) get some coverage at a UNC Research page at https://endeavors.unc.edu/runc-ken-tianyuan-ge/.
It's a fascinating piece.

Here's the direct link to the article itself: https://doi-org.pitt.idm.oclc.org/10.5406/25784773.5.2.02

07/07/2023

Our newest issue is OUT!

See it here ⬇
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issue/6/1

06/21/2023

Check out our newest Call for Special Issues for Fall 2024!

Deadline: July 15, 2023

05/23/2023

Call for Papers - Spring 2024!!

Proposals due by June 15!

02/13/2023

Our next CfP is out!!

Call for Reviews: Jazz Across Screen Media

See below for more details!

12/21/2022

The latest issue of Jazz and Culture is officially OUT! Special issue on guest edited by the brilliant Stephanie Doktor and Charles Carson. Available to subscribers at: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issue/5/2

Pasting the full Table of Contents below. Many thanks to the authors and delighted to get this fabulous work out in the world:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

nocoastjazz
Charles Carson and Stephanie Doktor

ARTICLES
Ship of Darkness: Jazz and/as Affect in the Global Cruise Industry
ken tianyuan Ge

Beyond a Lush Life: Representation and Performativity at America’s [Only] Q***r Jazz Festival
Destiny Meadows

ROUNDTABLE
“Jazz Can Exist Anywhere”: A Virtual Roundtable with Chaney Sims and Kris Johnson
Moderated by Charles Carson and Stephanie Doktor

POETRY
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
A Couple in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 1990
Bernardo Wade

VENUE REVIEWS
“Lucky Enough:” The Music and Stories That Make Vaughan’s Lounge, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Natalie Blaustone-Dye

From Balaclavas to Ballyhackamore: Scott’s Jazz Club, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Upright Men Seeking Upright Man: Pithecanthropus Erectus, Tokyo, Japan
Philip Arneill

Sons of Kemet, 19th February 2022: Gorilla, Manchester, UK
Sarah Raine

Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares, Connecticut River Valley, Western Massachusetts, USA
Jason Robinson

Creating and Sustaining an All-Ages Jam Session in Salt Lake City from 2021-2022: slcJAMS, Salt Lake City, USA
John T. Petrucelli

08/18/2022

As promised, our CfP for Book and Media Reviews is officially out!

Appearing in the Spring 2023 issue, the proposal deadline is September 1, 2022.

More info below!

08/15/2022

Call for Special Issues!

Proposals Due: October 1, 2022

See below for more information--

08/11/2022

Jazz and Culture is still seeking Book and Media Reviewers for our Spring 2023 issue. A full CfP will be going out soon, but if you have a proposal of a review you'd like to write, please feel free to reach out with a proposal!

05/24/2022

A new J&C issue drops soon! Due out officially on June 1.

And this will be the first curated by our new, expanded editorial team. We're delighted to welcome Steffan Triplett (Poetry Editor), Veronica Maria Johnson (Oral Histories), Dhiren Panikker
(Book Reviews), and Rami Stucky (Media Reviews)!

12/16/2021

Jazz and Culture needs your help! Do you have five minutes?

Despite receiving extensive scholarly accolades, the journal has lost funds since its founding and needs subscribers to become financially stable. This has become increasingly difficult as many libraries are slashing acquisitions budgets. We're not asking for money, but for five minutes of your time.

The best way to support us is to encourage your institution to subscribe. This is an easier process than you think! And is helpful whether you are a student, faculty member or otherwise connected to a university. Here's what you can do:

1.) Google the name of your institution and "library purchase request" (sometimes also called a "recommendation form").
2.) Most universities have a dedicated page or form to fill out. Ask them to subscribe to "Jazz and Culture" published by University of Illinois Press. If they need a URL: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id=jac
3.) If possible, please do this ASAP! Most libraries renew their journal subscriptions in January, so NOW is the time to make requests.

That's it! Student and faculty requests are hugely influential when libraries make purchasing requests, so this would be an effective way you can support the journal.

I'll end by mentioning that individual subscriptions are also very affordable (marked down heavily from the institutional ones - $30/year for 2 issues).

Thank you in advance for your ongoing support.

Founded in 1918, the University of Illinois Press publishes works of high quality for scholars, students, and the citizens of the State of Illinois and beyond. Headquartered in Champaign, the Press is a unit of the University of Illinois System, serving campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Spr...

11/23/2021

We annouced yesterday that our special issue (Vol 4, No. 2) titled Jazz in the Present Tense was now available. Be sure to subscribe or request your institution or local library to subscribe. A lot of great material and more to come.

Jazz and Culutre Vol 4, No. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Colloquy

A Praxis of Groove: Inter-Improvisations of Blues/Jazz Experiments through Freestyling and DJ’ing
Jonah Mixon Webster

Structure in the Moment: Rhythm Section Responsivity
Maya Kronfeld

Compassionate Logic Systems: Reflections on Black Life and Creative Black Music
William Parker

Articles

Jazz Education After 2017: The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the Pedagogical Lineage
Tracy McMullen

Whiteness as Improvisation, Nonwhiteness as Machine
Ritwik Banerji

Black Birdanity
James Gordon Williams

Roundtable Discussion

Precarity and Community
Ambrose Akinmusire, İlhan Erşahin, Matthew Garrison, Matthew Golombisky, Linda May Han Oh, Ben Ratliff, Camille Thurman, Natalie Weiner, Fumi Okiji, moderated by Kwami Coleman

Reviews

Simultaneity, Synchrony and Liveness: Jazz Confronts the Pandemic
Asher Tobin Chodos

11/22/2021

Our second special issue, “Jazz” in the Present Tense” is now available. Thanks to the hard work of our guest editors Kwami Coleman, Kimberly Hannon Teal, Fumi Okiji, and Nate Sloan. The special issue features articles, reviews, a panel discussion, and a colloquy section that focuses on a snapshot of Jazz in early 2020. When live music performance had evaporated into the ether, and digital and otherwise recorded music had become a salve in fearful times: a means for comfort, expression, contemplation, dance, and human connection in a time of hyperisolation. This issue is devoted to the mercurial volatility of change, which is something that is captured by art practitioners and scholars attuned to matters of creative practice.

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/subscribe_now.php?id=jac

Founded in 1918, the University of Illinois Press publishes works of high quality for scholars, students, and the citizens of the State of Illinois and beyond. Headquartered in Champaign, the Press is a unit of the University of Illinois System, serving campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Spr...

10/30/2021

08/02/2021

Sharing this beautiful piece on Geri Allen's legacy (including the J&C Special Issue) by Larry Blumenfeld in the latest Chamber Music America Magazine. https://www.chamber-music.org/mag/2021/summer/index.html?page=36

06/16/2021

Jazz and Culture Vol. 4 No. 1 is NOW AVAILABLE through subscription and JSTOR (online).

This issue features poetry and articles from Joy KMT, Nduduzo Makhathini, James Gordon Williams, and a collaborated piece from Jeremy Rose & Christopher Coady. You can also read "Between You and Not You," a conversation with Vijay Iyer, interviewed by Vilde Aaslid.

Click the link below for more information.
https://www.jstor.org/journal/jazzculture

Jazz and Culture is an annual publication devoted to publishing cutting-edge research on jazz from multiple perspectives. Founded on the principle that both sch...

05/10/2021

Here is a reminder that proposals of research articles, reviews, and oral histories for the next issue of Jazz and Culture, slated for release in Spring 2022 are due on May 15th.

To submit, please send a proposal of 300-500 words in either .pdf or .doc format to [email protected] by the deadline. Full manuscripts will be due by June 15th.

04/19/2021

We invite scholars and artists to submit proposals for research articles, reviews, and oral histories for the next issue of Jazz and Culture, slated for release in Spring 2022.

We request submissions in the following categories:
• Academic Articles in approximately 10,000 words.
• Oral Histories of Jazz Artists
• Book and Media Reviews (1,000-2,000 words)

To submit, please send a proposal of 300-500 words in either .pdf or .doc format to [email protected] by May 15th. Full manuscripts will be due by June 15th. If you have any questions, send an email to the same email.