Center for Jazz Studies: Faculty Publications
Two highly influential, even field-defining volumes have emerged directly from the work of the Center for Jazz Studies and the Jazz Study Group: The Jazz Cadence of American Culture, edited by Robert G. O’Meally (Columbia University Press, 1998) and Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, edited by Robert G. O’Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University Press, 2004). These books, which emerged from discussions about curriculum development among Jazz Study Group members, have been widely adopted in courses in jazz history and jazz studies at colleges and universities across the country.
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Edwards, Brent Hayes.
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003
Edwards, Brent Hayes.
Epistrophies: Jazz, Literature, and the Interplay of Sound and Script. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine.
If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: in Search of Billie Holiday.
New York: Free Press, 2001.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine.
Who Set You Flowin’?: The African-American Migration Narrative.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1996
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.
Lewis, George E.
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
O’Meally, Robert G.
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday.
New York: Da Capo, 1991.
O’Meally, Robert G. ed.
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998
O’Meally, Robert G. ed.
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
Szwed, John F.
Space is the Place: the Life and Times of Sun Ra.
New York: Pantheon, 1997.
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.
Szwed, John F.
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Washburne, Christopher, and Maiken Derno, eds.
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.
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Last Updated September 2, 2008.
