On jazz, memory and history
A response to Alyn Shipton
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v4i1.7Keywords:
Alan Lomax, Alyn Shipton, jazz history, memory, oral testimonyAbstract
This essay is a response to Alyn Shipton's essay in the previous edition of the journal. It will explore two related ideas: firstly, what the concept of memory offers the process of documenting jazz history; and secondly, the implications a theory of memory has for how jazz critics interpret that history and the documents on which they rely to verify the past.
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Braudel, F. (1980) On History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Cavell, S. (1988) Themes Out of School. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
DeVeaux, S. (1991) ‘Constructing the Jazz Tradition: Jazz Historiography’. Black American Literature Forum 25/3: 525–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3041812
Gushee, L. (2005) Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Jazz Band. New York: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, B. (2000) The Inaudible Music: Jazz, Gender and Australian Modernity. Strawberry Hills, New South Wales: Currency Press.
Lewis, G. E. (2008) A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Lomax, A. (2001) Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “Inventor of Jazz”. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Monson, I. (1996) Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Peretti, B. W. (1992) The Creation of Jazz: Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Peretti, B. W. (2001) ‘Speaking in the Groove: Oral History and Jazz’. Journal of American History 88/2: 582–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2675107
Radano, R. (2003) Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ricoeur, P. (2004) Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Shipton, A. (2009) ‘New Jazz Histories: Can a Reconciliation of Widely Differing Source Material Offer New Possibilities for the Jazz Historian?’ Jazz Research Journal 3/2: 127–44.
White, H. (2007) ‘Guilty of History? The Longue Durée of Paul Ricoeur’. History and Theory 46/2: 233–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00404.x
Published
2011-11-15
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How to Cite
Gebhardt, N. (2011). On jazz, memory and history: A response to Alyn Shipton. Jazz Research Journal, 4(1), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v4i1.7
