Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for
democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jazz culture has a story to tell …

The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s
and'40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though …

As musicians, listeners, and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is more
than a history of the music. Burton Peretti presents a fascinating account of how the racial …

When most people think of Detroit and music, they think of the Motown sound. But what
many people forget is that Detroit has a remarkable jazz history, which became a major …

This article uses a new database of subscribers to the New York Philharmonic to explore
how high culture became a form of socially valuable capital in late-19th-century America …

As has been extensively reported for a few years now, income from consumer sales of
sound recordings has decreased. Sales of physical CDs are accelerating downwards. The …

This article examines how scholarship in the sociology of music has been dominated by an
economic framework known as the production/consumption paradigm. It first traces the …

What factors shape the diversity of media products? A literature on the recording industry
offers competing accounts. The “cyclical account” stresses the negative impact of market …

Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet tackles a controversial question: Is jazz the product
of an insulated African-American environment, shut off from the rest of society by strictures of …

Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of
changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also …