Show Notes
I talk with Dr. AJ Kluth about the vibrant LA jazz scene, the Jazz is Dead phenomenon, and how this music helps us think about—and calls into question—the distinction between “jazz” and “popular music.”
Timestamps
00: Intro
5:00: Jazz is Dead and White Zombie, Dr. Kluth’s book project
7:06: Musical genre in the scene
14:00 Race, necropolitics, genre play
20:30: Historical precedents for the sentiment that jazz is dead
29:00 Poetics of relation, ethics of jazz, and creolization
33:25: Methods and background
43:30 What’s making guest cry
References
Akker, Robin van den, Alison Gibbons, and Timotheus Vermeulen, eds. 2017. Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism (Radical Cultural Studies). Rowman & Littlefield.
Bland, Edward O., director. 1959. The Cry of Jazz. KHTB Productions.
Glissant, Edward. 1997. Poetics of Relation. University of Michigan Press.
Mbembe, Achille. 2019. Necropolitics. Duke University Press.
Payton, Nicholas. 2011. “On Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore.” Personal Blog, November 27. https://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/on-why-jazz-isnt-cool-anymore/.
Savage, Roger W. H. 2010. Hermeneutics and Music Criticism. Routledge.
Sharpe, Christina. 2016. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke University Press.
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