This wide-ranging, ambitiously interdisciplinary study traces jazz's influence on African
American poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary spoken word poetry …

The term'flow'refers to experiences where the musician moves into a consciousness in
which time seems to be suspended and perception of reality is blurred by unconscious …

In Spirits Rejoice! Jason Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and
American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped. Much writing …

This dissertation examines aspects of the creative practice of Muhal Richard Abrams,
composer, improviser, pianist, and cofounder of the Association for the Advancement of …

Contingent Encounters offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears
between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and …

Issues of racial representation and discrimination have been central concerns for jazz
historians and critics since the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The emphasis placed on …

In the wake of the global mass protests against systemic racism and police brutality in 2020,
US institutions have undergone what has been described as a “racial reckoning”—to …

Abstract George Russell conceptualized his Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal
Organization as a theory of tonality. He includes an analysis of the opening of Maurice …

This article theorizes a network of “fugitive music theory” and examines George Russell's
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization (1953) as a case study. Fugitive music …

This is a dissertation about Erroll Garner (1921-1977) in time. The Pittsburgh-born, African
American jazz pianist was known for his sense of rhythm, the component of music that is …