Editorial

Jazz in Australasia

Authors

  • Bruce Johnson University of Turku (Finland), University of Glasgow (UK), Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v8i1-2.27135

Keywords:

Jazz, Australia, Music

Author Biography

  • Bruce Johnson, University of Turku (Finland), University of Glasgow (UK), Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)

    Bruce Johnson was formerly Professor, School of English, University of New South Wales (UNSW), during which period he also held numerous visiting lectureships and professorships including at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Edinburgh's Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and Liverpool's Institute for Popular Music. He left UNSW in 2005 to take up a range of appointments elsewhere including Professor of Music at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. In addition to the Macquarie affiliation, he is currently Docent and Visiting Professor, Cultural History, University of Turku; and Visiting Professor of Music at the University of Glasgow. Apart from Australia, he has conducted cultural fieldwork in Scandinavia, Lapland and Russia. His teaching and research have ranged historically from the Renaissance to (post)modernity, and his career publication list runs to nearly 500 items, from encyclopaedia entries including in The Oxford Companion to Australian Music, The Currency Companion to Australian Music and Dance, and The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, and major reference works including The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz. He has been active in concert, touring and recording work as a jazz musician, also as a record producer and an award winning broadcaster. He was the prime mover in setting up the Australian Jazz Archives in Canberra, Foundation Member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and the co-founder of the International Institute for Popular Culture in Finland. His primary research field is sound as cultural history and cultural history as sound.

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2015-06-16

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How to Cite

Johnson, B. (2015). Editorial: Jazz in Australasia. Jazz Research Journal, 8(1-2), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v8i1-2.27135