Past, present and future jazz: scholarship, historiography, education and performance

ABSTRACT - In this article I discuss jazz historiography from a critical perspective, namely: the troubled acceptance of its practices and discourses within American society; the complex relationships between jazz, the canon, and academia; the process es of construction and dissemination of local aesthetics and practices; the key issues of race and gender; analytical approaches; and artistic creation in the context of performance. I argue that traditional historical readings (identification of styles and »artistic schools«, for example) should be combined with analytic, cultural and musical approaches focused on the impact of practices and discourses of musicians, critics, historians, and other agents of the milieu, as an echo and at the same time agent of social and aesthetic transformation