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20 - Reinstating Televisual Histories of Jazz

from Part V - Images and Screens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Michael Borshuk
Affiliation:
Texas Tech University
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This chapter argues that television history has been neglected by jazz scholars. It describes a historical relationship between the music and the broadcast medium, noting particular trends such as musicians in variety and other performance settings, reenactments of key moments in jazz history, narratives of jazz in episodic drama and comedic treatments of jazz. While there is a growing literature on variety/performance programming, the chapter notes the ongoing absence of scholarship on dramatic and comedic treatments. Drawing on methodologies from television studies, case studies are presented which demonstrate rich engagements between jazz and television. The chapter ends by suggesting that we should turn away from considering exceptional moments in jazz television history and towards its presence in the everyday consumption of television.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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