Jazz away from the Discourses: New Jazz Studies and the Wider Jazz Community

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Since Krin Gabbard’s well-acclaimed Jazz Among the Discourses, New Jazz Studies has developed into an interdisciplinary field of critical discourse, legitimized through academic institutionalisation. Gabbard set high expectations, stating that “the entry of jazz discourse into the dialogues of the university can only result in the transformation of that discourse.” This paper explores the implications and consequences of New Jazz Studies as a scholarly discipline and its consequences within the wider professional jazz field, moving beyond the fields academic and critical ambitions. It discusses some of the preliminary work of the IMPRODECO research group, with a focus on the impact of Eurocentric notions of music on the institutionalization of jazz education in the Netherlands. Taking decolonial discourse as a framework, it argues that while jazz discourse may (or may not) have transformed the scholarly debate, processes of knowledge-making ultimately should be there to – in the words of Walter Mignolo – advance the people, rather than to advance the discipline.

Period	29 Nov 2024
Event title	Jazz Among the Discourses: 30 Years on
Event type	Conference
Location	Birmingham, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International