Women and Jazz

José Dias is a musician and researcher, currently serving as Assistant Professor in Critical Practices at Coventry University. He has authored Jazz in Europe: Networking and Negotiating Identities (2019) and Festa do Jazz (2020), and directed the documentary Those Who Make It Happen (2016). As a musician and composer, Dias has toured and recorded extensively and scored music for animation, film and television, as well as theatre and contemporary dance.Christa Bruckner‑Haring is an Assistant Professor and the Deputy Director of the Institute for Jazz and Popular Music Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she is also co‑editor of the publication series Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, Beiträge zur Jazzforschung/Studies in Jazz Research, and Jazz Research News. Her work has appeared in such publications as Transnational Studies in Jazz, Jazz Research Journal, Beiträge zur Popularmusikforschung, European Journal of Musicology, the encyclopaedia MGG, and her monograph Gonzalo Rubalcaba und die kubanische Musik (2015).

• ForewordSara SerpaPrefaceJosé Dias and Christa Bruckner-HaringAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Breaking Barriers: Women’s Voices in Jazz Research and PerformanceJosé Dias and Christa Bruckner-HaringChapter 2. Female Jazz Musicians in European Jazz HistoriographyMagdalena FürnkranzJoëlle LéandreInterview by Marie BuscattoPaula SousaInterview by Beatriz NunesMonika Herzig Interview by Magdalena FürnkranzGina SchwarzInterview by Magdalena FürnkranzChapter 3. Out of Place: The Importance of Female Role Models in Jazz EducationBeatriz NunesAirelle BessonInterview by Marie BuscattoBeatriz FélixInterview by Beatriz NunesInge Katharina PechocInterview by Magdalena FürnkranzRomarna Campbell Interview by Sarah RaineChapter 4. Harmonizing Motherhood, Reimagining Identity, Support Networks, and Gender Equity in JazzLee Ellen MartinGiedrė KilčiauskienėInterview by Daina UrbanavičienėBéatrice GrafInterview by Katharina WeissenbacherAnne PaceoInterview by Marie BuscattoYazz AhmedInterview by Sarah RaineJudith SchwarzInterview by Magdalena FürnkranzChapter 5. Working Together: Support Systems Beyond the Homosocial Jazz Networks Sarah RaineVeronika Čičinskaitė-GolovanovaInterview by Daina UrbanavičienėAnoushka NanguyInterview by Sarah RaineSophie AlourInterview by Marie BuscattoMarena WhitcherInterview by Katharina WeissenbacherChapter 6. “The Guys Didn’t Call to Offer Me Gigs”: Gender Dynamics in the Icelandic Jazz SceneÞorbjörg Daphne HallAlicia Gardener-TrejoInterview by José DiasLuzia von WylInterview by Katharina WeissenbacherViktorija GečytėInterview by Daina UrbanavičienėLara JonesInterview by Sarah RaineChapter 7. Artistic Research in Jazz: Can You Hear That I Am a Woman?Jasna JovićevićNeda MalūnavičiūtėInterview by Daina UrbanavičienėIro HaarlaInterview by Elina Hytänen-NgHilaria KramerInterview by Katharina WeissenbacherSusana Santos SilvaInterview by Beatriz NunesChapter 8. When Female Jazz Instrumentalists Make It “Anyway”…Marie BuscattoChapter 9. OutlookJosé Dias and Christa Bruckner-HaringAfterwordLoes Rusch