Equinox Publications will officially launch the Jazz Research Journal on
Thursday 22 March 2007 at the Leeds International Jazz Conference. The
journal is edited by Dr Catherine Parsonage and Dr Tony Whyton (Leeds
College of Music, UK). It is a development and extension of The Source:
Challenging Jazz Criticism founded in 2004 at Leeds College of Music.
There is a subscription discount available for members of the Jazz
Research Network who have registered via the main JRN site at
http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/cfjs-jazz-research-network.htm
The first issue of the new journal is in preparation and will appear in
May 2007, this will be a special issue on Jazz, Politics and the Popular,
the theme of LIJC 2006. This will include an article by Simon Frith, the
keynote speaker at that event.
Jazz Research Journal explores a range of cultural and critical views on
jazz. The journal celebrates the diversity of approaches found in jazz
scholarship and provides a forum for interaction and the cross-
fertilisation of ideas.
The journal aims to represent a range of disciplinary perspectives on
jazz, from musicology to film studies, sociology to cultural studies, and
offers a platform for new thinking on jazz. In this respect, the editors
particularly welcome articles that challenge traditional approaches to
jazz and encourage writings that engage with jazz as a discursive practice.
Jazz Research Journal publishes original and innovative research that
either extends the boundaries of jazz scholarship or explores themes which
are central to a critical understanding of the music, including the
politics of race and gender, the shifting cultural representation of jazz,
and the complexity of canon formation and dissolution.
In addition to articles, the journal features a reviews section that
publishes critical articles on a variety of media, including recordings,
film, books, educational products and multimedia publications.
The editors are delighted to welcome a number of high-profile academics to
the expanded editorial board. The journal will also now be published twice
a year, in May and November. Full details can be found on the journal
website, where contributors can also submit articles for consideration.
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/Jazz/index
Dr Catherine Parsonage
Head, Centre for Jazz Studies
Leeds College of Music
3 Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
0113 222 3485
http://www.lcm.ac.uk/research-conference/centre-for-jazz-studies.htm
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