Women and Jazz

European Perspectives from Female Researchers and Artists
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-01563-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Women and Jazz: European Perspectives from Female Researchers and Artists is an edited volume bringing together the work of female researchers exploring the complex relationship between jazz and gender. Who are the European and Europe-based women in jazz, and do they perceive jazz as still being a male-dominated world? Women and Jazz encompasses a broad range of views and themes, including the role of women in European jazz history, their daily lives, motherhood, music education, festivals, and live performance.

The volume features interviews with twenty-six female European or Europe-based jazz artists. These interviews serve as tangible illustrations of the female experience in professional jazz. This volume also sheds light on hidden gems within jazz, introducing readers to talented female artists who may have been overlooked. Readers can gain insight into inspiring stories of perseverance and creativity, as well as unique perspectives that each musician brings to the music. By reading this book, individuals can contribute to amplifying underrepresented voices in the world of jazz and promoting a more inclusive understanding of the music and society. Women and Jazz will be of interest to jazz professionals, popular music scholars, gender studies scholars, teachers, students, and anyone wanting to learn more about women’s perspectives on the field of jazz.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruckner Haring, Christa

Dias, José

Dias, Jose

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Sara Serpa

Preface

José Dias and Christa Bruckner-Haring

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Breaking Barriers: Women’s Voices in Jazz Research and Performance

José Dias and Christa Bruckner-Haring

Chapter 2. Female Jazz Musicians in European Jazz Historiography

Magdalena Fürnkranz

Joëlle Léandre

Interview by Marie Buscatto

Paula Sousa

Interview by Beatriz Nunes

Monika Herzig

Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz

Gina Schwarz

Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz

Chapter 3. Out of Place: The Importance of Female Role Models in Jazz Education

Beatriz Nunes

Airelle Besson

Interview by Marie Buscatto

Beatriz Félix

Interview by Beatriz Nunes

Inge Katharina Pechoc

Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz

Romarna Campbell

Interview by Sarah Raine

Chapter 4. Harmonizing Motherhood, Reimagining Identity, Support Networks, and Gender Equity in Jazz

Lee Ellen Martin

Giedre Kilciauskiene

Interview by Daina Urbanaviciene

Béatrice Graf

Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher

Anne Paceo

Interview by Marie Buscatto

Yazz Ahmed

Interview by Sarah Raine

Judith Schwarz

Interview by Magdalena Fürnkranz

Chapter 5. Working Together: Support Systems Beyond the Homosocial Jazz Networks

Sarah Raine

Veronika Cicinskaite-Golovanova

Interview by Daina Urbanaviciene

Anoushka Nanguy

Interview by Sarah Raine

Sophie Alour

Interview by Marie Buscatto

Marena Whitcher

Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher

Chapter 6. “The Guys Didn’t Call to Offer Me Gigs”: Gender Dynamics in the Icelandic Jazz Scene

Þorbjörg Daphne Hall

Alicia Gardener-Trejo

Interview by José Dias

Luzia von Wyl

Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher

Viktorija Gecyte

Interview by Daina Urbanaviciene

Lara Jones

Interview by Sarah Raine

Chapter 7. Artistic Research in Jazz: Can You Hear That I Am a Woman?

Jasna Jovicevic

Neda Malunaviciute

Interview by Daina Urbanaviciene

Iro Haarla

Interview by Elina Hytänen-Ng

Hilaria Kramer

Interview by Katharina Weissenbacher

Susana Santos Silva

Interview by Beatriz Nunes

Chapter 8. When Female Jazz Instrumentalists Make It “Anyway”…

Marie Buscatto

Chapter 9. Outlook

José Dias and Christa Bruckner-Haring

Afterword

Loes Rusch

Über Autor(innen)

José Dias is a musician and researcher, currently serving as Assistant Professor in Critical Practices at Coventry University. He has authored Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Festa do Jazz (INCM, 2020) and directed the documentary Those Who Make It Happen (2016). As a musician and composer, Dias has toured and recorded extensively and scored music for animation, film and television, as well as theatre and contemporary dance.

Christa Bruckner-Haring is a musicologist specializing in jazz and popular music research and deputy director of the Institute for Jazz Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she is also co-editor of the publication series Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, Beiträge zur Jazzforschung/Studies in Jazz Research, and Jazz Research News. Her work has appeared in such publications as Transnational Studies in Jazz, Jazz Research Journal, Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, the encyclopaedia MGG, and her monograph Gonzalo Rubalcaba und die kubanische Musik (2015).