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  • 20 - Reinstating Televisual Histories of Jazz

  • from Part V - Images and Screens
  • Edited by Michael Borshuk, Texas Tech University
  • Book:
    Jazz and American Culture
    Published online:
    09 November 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023, pp 305-318

  • Summary

    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.