Jazz and Culture

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The University of Pittsburgh’s Jazz Studies program in collaboration with Illinois Press are proud to announce the revival of our journal Jazz and Culture (formerly the International Jazz Archives Journal). Jazz and Culture is a peer-reviewed publication devoted to publishing cutting-edge research on jazz from multiple perspectives. The journal was founded on the principle that both scholars and musicians offer invaluable contributions to scholarly inquiry. Continuing in that legacy, the journal will juxtapose groundbreaking work by researchers alongside oral histories and submissions written by master artists in the field. All methodological approaches are welcome, including ethno/musicology, music theory, and critical and cultural studies. Drawing upon recent trends in music scholarship, we further seek to interrogate a range of issues connecting music, race, class, gender, and other realms of social practice.

Current Issue - Volume 9, No. 1, The Power of Geri Allen

Opening Portals: Geri Allen and (ct)REN—A Primer for the Critical Theory of the Research and Education Network, an article by Mount V. Allen III

A Conversation with Mary Lou, a theatrical script by Farah Jasmine Griffin, Geri Allen, S. Epatha Merkerson

Lore, Lessons, and Legacy: Howard University's Geri Allen, an oral history by Jessica Boykin-Settles

Geri Allen's Freedom Music: Notes on Openness and the Universal, an article by Serubiri Moses

“The Great Artist That She Was”: Terri Lyne Carrington and esperanza spalding on Geri Allen's Legacy, an oral history by Yoko Suzuki, Michael Heller

Jazz and Culture Issues