Special Issue -State of the Field: Jazz & Gender 

Kelsey Klotz, Guest Editor

The Journal of Jazz Studies invites proposals for articles, essays, interviews, book/media reviews, artwork, and poetry for its special issue on jazz and gender, planned for publication in Spring 2025. This issue will focus on systems of patriarchy, feminism, sexism, and power in jazz history, historiography, and pedagogy. Interested authors should email a 400-500 word abstract discussing the intended submission to JJS managing editor Sean Lorre (sjlorre@mgsa.rutgers.edu) by April 1, 2024. Contact guest editor Kelsey Koltz (klotz@umd.edu) if you have questions.

This issue presents Eirik Jacobsen and Anne Danielsen’s investigation of how jazz musicians intentionally use sonic features to shape the micro level of rhythm in their performances, an oral history with Lonnie Liston Smith that recounts 80 years of American music history, a careful look at the IJS's Victoria Spivey Collection, and a review of T. Storm Hester's The Sonic Gaze: Jazz, Whiteness, and Racialized Listening.

The Journal of Jazz Studies is pleased to welcome Stephanie Doktor, Darren Mueller, and Nichole Rustin-Paschal to our editoral board.

Is there a film, box set, podcast or documentary that you would like to explore that hasn't been written about previously? A book that may be a hidden treasure, or one that you take issue with?  The Journal of Jazz Studies is seeking reviews of 2,000 words or less or more in-depth review essays (2,000-5,000 words). This is the place to share your research and opinions!!!

Please contact our Reviews Editor, Jeff Sultanof (jeffsultanof@gmail.com), for more information or submit directly to the journal using our online submission system. 

The Bridge is the Journal of Jazz Studies's space for non-traditional forms of jazz scholarship. In the spirit of the 1962 Sonny Rollins album of the same name, we welcome submissions and proposals that explore alternative ways to think about, with, and through jazz, or that address its most urgent issues. We welcome reflections, discussions, provocations, and commemorations, as well as creative and speculative writing, oral histories, photo and sound essays. The Bridge celebrates work that is experiential and experimental, polyrhythmic and polyvocal, collaborative or community focused, interdisciplinary or even undisciplined.

To discuss your submission or submit a proposal, please contact the section editor Dr Lawrence Davies (lawrence.davies@liverpool.ac.uk)