The Cultural Politics of Jazz Collectives

1. Introduction: Jazz as a Collective Problem Nicholas Gebhardt 2. Complaining Time is Over:" Network and Collective Strategies of The New York Musicians Organization Michael C. Heller 3. Playing politics: Dutch improvising musicians facing the authorities Loes Rusch 4. Sound Visions and Free Initiatives: The Cultural Politics of Creative Improvised Music Collectives A. Scott Currie 5. Musical Hybridity in the New European City: The Jazz Hip Hop Collectives of C-Mon & Kypski and Kytopia Kristin McGee 6. Collective Cultures and Live Jazz in Birmingham Tim Wall and Simon Barber 7. San Francisco State University's Music Federation: The Political Machine behind a Jazz Cooperative for Teachers Meredith Eliassen 8. MINNET: Transcending Genre Boundaries, Organizing Diversity Alf Arvidsson and Joergen Adolfsson 9. 'Wonderbrass' as a South Wales Community Jazz Collective Rob Smith 10. Jazz networks in Austria - the young initiative JazzWerkstatt Christa Bruckner-Haring and Michael Kahr 11. Improvisational conduct and case studies from the margins - an insider's view on negotiating the collective Petter Frost Fadnes 12. Collective practice and digital mediation Andrew Dubber 13. Conclusion: Towards a Collective Jazz Studies Tony Whyton