The book represents the revelation of a jazz culture which has been almost completely neglected in jazz studies.  Meer

Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice presents an ethnographic reflection on improvisation as performance, examining how musicians think and act when negotiating improvisational frameworks.  Meer

• first of a kind to explore the topic of contemporary Chinese jazz, and unique in examining phenomena of contemporary music in China • exposes the insiders’ views of the very people – jazz musicians, teachers, students, producers and fans – who in their daily practices first created and developed Chinese jazz.  Meer

• Creates a defining narrative on the history and programming of jazz on television and contributes to the emerging literature on jazz and the media; • Focuses on the cultural politics of jazz on television, exploring the relationship between jazz and a state control television in the twentieth century • Collates primary sources relevant to the understanding of a single jazz location – Portugal --and its relationship to international television jazz production in the US and Western Europe • Challenges dominant historical jazz narratives regarding the status of jazz on television and its dissemination within the public sphere.  Meer

• first of a kind to explore the topic of contemporary Chinese jazz, and unique in examining phenomena of contemporary music in China • exposes the insiders’ views of the very people – jazz musicians, teachers, students, producers and fans – who in their daily practices first created and developed Chinese jazz.  Meer

Tallinn ’67 Jazz Festival: Myths and Memories explores the legendary 1967 jazz gathering that centered Tallinn, Estonia as the jazz capital of the USSR and marked both the pinnacle of a Soviet jazz awakening as well as the end of a long series of evolutionary jazz festivals in Estonia.  Meer

1. it describes the way a European country and its jazz scene impacted the jazz world in the US from the late 1940s onwards. 2. it analyzes how the distinctive meaning of this music was constructed, paying specific attention to the influence of record covers, liner notes, jazz criticism and how these different elements related to each other.  Meer

Jazz and Death: Reception, Rituals, and Representations critically examines the myriad and complex interactions between jazz and death, from the New Orleans "jazz funeral" to jazz in heaven or hell, final recordings, jazz monuments, and the music’s own presumed death.  Meer

Austral Jazz: The Localization of a Global Music Form in Sydney proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding local jazz communities as they develop outside the United States, demonstrating such processes in action by applying the framework to a significant period of the history of jazz in Sydney, Australia after 1973.  Meer

Advancing the New Jazz Studies by focusing on questions of intermediality and cultural catalysis, this book demonstrates the role jazz played in the re-making of West German culture in the post-war era.  Meer

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art— to assert one’s creativity, passion, and self-expression—establishing it as an art form.  Meer

Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. 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.  Meer

Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz recordings in 1917. 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.  Meer

Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China.  Meer

Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in the 1930s to present day Iran and China.  Meer

An eclectic study of wide-ranging but carefully chosen case studies and examples, from nineteenth century literature, through 1930s Broadway and film, to twentieth and twenty- first century jazz and popular music.  Meer

Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses – especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism – that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception.  Meer

Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice presents an ethnographic reflection on improvisation as performance, examining how musicians think and act when negotiating improvisational frameworks.  Meer

1) A scientific sociological study that rigorously establishes how female discrimination really works in jazz worlds in the 2000s, 2) Demonstrates how female jazz musicians are invisibly discriminated in the French jazz world and the ways some of them do access to jazz professional music anyway --- and how that applies to the greater jazz world.  Meer

1) A scientific sociological study that rigorously establishes how female discrimination really works in jazz worlds in the 2000s, 2) Demonstrates how female jazz musicians are invisibly discriminated in the French jazz world and the ways some of them do access to jazz professional music anyway --- and how that applies to the greater jazz world.  Meer