Annotated Bibliography

Ake, David, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark, eds.. Jazz/not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries. Edited by David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2012.

Ake, Garrett, and Goldmark explore the lives of musicians, the significance of location, and various practices that led to jazz music being categorized as such. These authors work to unpack the myths behind jazz and provide information about often unheard artists. Many of these unheard artists are artists that we focus on in our project, and this text provides a more detailed analysis of their lives and works.

Bode, Katherine, and Paul Longley. Arthur. Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014.

Bode and Longley’s piece, Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories, discusses how humanities is being advanced and challenged by the incorporation of technology. Furthermore, the text discusses the global impact. Considering how relatively new this field is, Bode and Longley’s evaluations come at an opportune moment. For our project, the piece guided us in terms of focusing on accessibility and performance, rather than focusing solely on content.

Dahl, Linda. Stormy Weather: Music and Lives of a Century of Jazzwomen. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1984.

Stormy Weather gives information about the history of women in jazz.  It provides interviews that discuss the true issues women in jazz faced and also gives a history of how women got involved in jazz.  The book also discusses in which ways the different women participated and left their respective “mark” on the jazz world.  This source was important for our DHi project because it helped us fill in information that was not completely provided by just reading the transcriptions from the interviews by Monk Rowe.  

Deegan, M. and Tanner, S. “Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age”. London, Library Association Publishing, 2001.

Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner provide a fantastic overview of the state of affairs in digital libraries. Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age serves as a means of understanding the significance of digitization, archives, and collaboration. Both authors offer excellent summaries within the text. This text assisted us in understanding the various digital humanities methods that were necessary for our project.

Gerard, Charley. Jazz in Black and White: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Jazz Community. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.

Jazz in Black and White questions the issue and impact on race in the world of jazz.  This book argues that although whites have been a part of jazz since it first developed, major developments in jazz are the result of black people searching for their identity as “Americans” and as members of the African diaspora.  The argument is made that black people feel the shifts in social norms and racial issues more so than white people, which as a result affects their work in jazz world.  This relates to our DHi final project because it helps our understanding of the way that race played a role in certain women’s lives during their careers in jazz.

Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

The History of Jazz gives the reader the opportunity to take a long detailed journey through the historical legacy of jazz and its impact and contribution to U.S. society. It allows for those who are not aware of the fundamental background of jazz music, to understand its trajectory by providing location and the names of people responsible for the birth of this celebrated music genre.

Gold, Matthew K. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Debates in the Digital Humanities brings multiple theories together to present various arguments that challenge the issues within digital humanities. Having utilized this text in class, we were able to incorporate several arguments within our project. Furthermore, Gold and the other authors’ arguments served as a foundation for the thesis of our project.

Greengrass, M. and Hughes, L. ”The Virtual Representation of the Past”. Ashgate, 2008.

Greengrass and Hughes examines the importance and impact of the virtual representation of the past through digital media. Considering that we are utilizing the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, this text provided us a stronger lens through which we could understand how past can be manipulated and manifested into the present. Furthermore, the text offered various suggestions on how to utilize found footage in a digital humanities project.

Hersch, Charles. Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans dives directly into one of the main topics related jazz music, race. Without roundabouts, the text explains the impact and contributions of African Americans to the jazz music and their ingenuity and talent in being able to perform in both black and white arena allowed jazz musicians from New Orleans to establish themselves and jazz music in the industry.  

Kemodle, Tammy Lynn. Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004.

Soul on Soul traces the journey of Mary Lou Williams as the artist becomes the only jazz performer to have experienced and performed during jazz’s many musical style changes up to 1995. Most importantly, the book discusses Williams’ musical style and discipline which at the time transcended the gender dynamics of how women were perceived as jazz musicians given that jazz was mainly relegated to men.  This book is directly linked to the DH final project in that it helped fill in information about Mary Lou Williams that was not available in the Hamilton Jazz Archives’ scripts.

Sandke, Randall. Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2010.