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Article: Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band.
- Article from:
- The Oral History Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
- Author:
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Scholars and writers in the burgeoning field of jazz studies are critically reevaluating some of the timeworn patterns of how mainstream jazz histories have been written. According to writers, such as those anthologized in Jazz Among the Discourses (1995), jazz scholarship is too "devoted to exalting favored artists"; too invested in "campaigns for superiority of genres"; jazz history is too neatly constructed into a misleading "coherent whole" of "styles or periods, each with a conveniently distinctive label and time period"; and, finally, the jazz historical record is too reliant on the very small portion of music which gets made into jazz records.(1)
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