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15 - Artists’ PerspectivesJazz in Australia – The State of Play

from Part III - Diversities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
Jamie Oehlers ,
Andrea Keller ,
Gian Slater ,
Phil Slater ,
Kristin Berardi ,
Simon Barker  and
Stephen Magnusson
Edited by
Amanda Harris  and
Clint Bracknell
Amanda Harris
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
Clint Bracknell
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia
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Summary

This chapter examines the current state of jazz in Australia through the lens of notable practitioners—Andrea Keller, Simon Barker, Gian Slater, Kristin Berardi, Phil Slater and Jamie Oehlers. Presented as a panel discussion, the participants explore the term ‘jazz’ as it is perceived both by audiences and the practitioners themselves, discuss the challenges of presenting original music in a country as isolated as Australia, and question whether there is an audible Australian jazz ‘dialect’.

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ImprovisationAustralian JazzMusicJazz
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The Cambridge Companion to Music in Australia , pp. 233 - 242
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Bartleet, B. L., Bennett, D., Bridgstock, R., Harrison, S., Draper, P., Tomlinson, V. and Ballico, C., Making Music Work: Sustainable Portfolio Careers for Australian Musicians (Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, 2020), https://makingmusicworkcomau.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/mmw_full-report.pdf.Google Scholar
Johnson, B., Jazz Diaspora: New Approaches to Music and Globalisation, Transnational Studies in Jazz (New York: Routledge, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Johnson, B., The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1987).Google Scholar
Robson, A., Austral Jazz: The Localization of a Global Music Form in Sydney (New York: Routledge, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shand, J., Jazz: The Australian Accent (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008).Google Scholar
Stratton, J., ‘“All Rock and Rhythm and Jazz”: Rock ‘n’ Roll Origin Stories and Race in Australia’, Continuum, 21(3) (2007), 379–92, https://doi.org/10.1080/10304310701460730.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whiteoak, J., ‘Critiquing the “What Is Jazz” Puzzle in a Diasporic Setting: “Jazz-Related” Performance and Patronage in Australia before “Jazz”’, Popular Music and Society, 45(4) (2022), 377–404, https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2022.2123469.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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