Jazz Across the Arts

Recently Added Jazz Across the Arts Materials

A Bibliography of Jazz and Poetry Criticism
Guide to materials relating to jazz music and jazz literature.
Jazz in Modern American Literature
Syllabus for Professor William J. Harris' seminar, Jazz in Modern American Literature.
Saving it Twice: Preserving Jazz in Documentaries, Compilation Films, and Short Subjects
Annotated Jazz Film Canon
An annotated list of films essential to the study of jazz.
Jazz Narrative in Novels and Film
A guide to Kevin Whitehead's course exploring jazz in literature and film.

Go beyond the music with JSO'S Jazz Across the Arts. Find resources that explore the inter-connections between jazz music and poetry, fiction, drama, dance, visual art, and more.

Seeing Jazz

Robert G. O'Meally's introduction to Seeing Jazz: Artists and Writers on Jazz, produced by Chronicle Books in association with the Smithsonian. Find out how jazz-like modes of rhthym, improvisation, and call and response are expressed in literature and visual art.

Jazz Music in Motion

Dancer and scholar Jacqui Malone traces the intertwined histories of jazz music and dance to black musical theater on Broadway, exploring the influence of rhythm tap-dancing and other jazz dance forms on musicians of the 1920s and 1930s.