Recent jazz-related books
by members of the Jazz Study Group
Benston, Kimberly W.
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism.
New York: Routledge, 2000.
Edwards, Brent Hayes.
Epistrophies: Jazz, Literature, and the Interplay of Sound and Script.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.
Gabbard, Krin, ed.
Jazz Among the Discourses.
Durham (NC): Duke University Press, 1995.
Gabbard, Krin, ed.
Representing Jazz.
Durham (NC): Duke University Press, 1995
Gabbard, Krin.
Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1996.
Gabbard, Krin.
Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Gabbard, Krin.
Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture.
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
Gennari, John.
Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and its Critics.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday.
New York: Free Press, 2001.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine, and Salim Washington.
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.
Harris, William J.
The Poetry and Poetics of Amiri Baraka: The Jazz Aesthetic.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985.
Hisama, Ellie M., and Evan Rapport.
Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies, ISAM monograph no. 35.
rooklyn: Institute for Studies in American Music, 2005
Jackson, Travis.
Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene.
Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.
Kelley, Robin D. G.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2002.
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Malone, Jacqui.
Class Act: The Jazz Life of Choreographer Cholly Atkins.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Monson, Ingrid T.
Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996
Monson, Ingrid, ed.
The African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective.
New York: Garland, 2000.
Moten, Fred.
In the Break: the Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
O’Meally, Robert G. ed.
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998
Living with Music: Ralph Ellison’s Jazz Writings.
New York: Modern Library, 2001.
O’Meally, Robert G., Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin, eds.
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2004
Ramsey, Guthrie.
Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip Hop.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Szwed, John F.
Space is the Place: the Life and Times of Sun Ra.
New York: Pantheon, 1997.
Szwed, John F.
Jazz 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz.
New York: Hyperion, 2000.
Szwed, John F.
So What: the Life of Miles Davis.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.
Tate, Greg.
Everything but the Burden: What White People are Taking from Black Culture.
New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
Tate, Greg.
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Taylor, Jeff.
Stompin’ ‘Em Down: Early Jazz Piano on Chicago’s South Side.
Berkeley: University of California Press. Forthcoming.
Tucker, Sherrie.
Swing Shift: “All-Girl” Bands of the 1940s.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Tucker, Sherrie, and Nichole Rustin, eds.
Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies.
Durham and London: Duke University Press, forthcoming
Bad Music: the Music We Love to Hate.
New York: Routledge, 2004.
Washburne, Christopher.
Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New York City.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.
Von Eschen, Penny.
Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
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Last Updated September 2, 2008.
