The Resonant Body and the Newer ‘New Jazz Studies’: A Bibliographic Essay

Abstract

In exploring successive transformations of jazz, its performance, consumption, and cultural status, this article engages with the ‘New Jazz Studies’, a disciplined proclaimed sometime in the early 1990s. In so doing, this article questions whether since the 1990s, scholars, though they have broadened the horizon by emphasizing the roles of culture, have focused almost exclusively on the social character of jazz. Since then, the ‘Music Itself’ has more often been the premises of scholars working within the field of performance or critical improvisation studies rather than jazz studies. Where does this leave jazz?