Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first Jazz recordings in 1917.
Until the late twentieth century, the historiography and analysis of Jazz were centred on the US to the almost complete exclusion o.
This book studies the processes of the global Jazz diaspora and its implications for Jazz historiography in general, arguing for its relevance to the fields of sonic studies and cognitive theory.
Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first Jazz recordings in 1917