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"Turning the face of music historiography toward...race, ethnicity, and class."
Jazz Studies Online, a new and evolving project, brings together a rich and varied collection of digital resources — journal articles, books chapters, videos, teaching materials, and an extensive index of outside resources — of interest to jazz scholars, musicians, educators, journalists, and fans. Jazz Studies Online engages with issues that inform and broaden our thinking about jazz — issues such as race and ethnicity, improvisation, modernism, and music theory. Continue reading about Jazz Studies Online.
Paula West at Miller Theatre
On January 26, 2007, Columbia University hosted Paula West and her quartet in "Swinging Uptown: Paula West Re-Sets the Standards." This JSO Special Feature presents video footage from the concert, as well as a video interview with Columbia professor Farah Jasmine Griffin, and related textual resources.
Blues for New Orleans
Watch a video interview with Columbia Professor John Szwed about New Orleans' Creole history and the post-Katrina future, and browse resources from Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul, co-authored with Roger D. Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, and Robert Farris Thompson.