Perspectives on the Melbourne International Women's Jazz Festival
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v8i1-2.26774Keywords:
Australian jazz, women in jazz, jazz festivalsAbstract
This paper examines the significance of the Melbourne Women’s International Jazz Festival as a long-established annual event highlighting the contributions of women jazz musicians to Australian music culture. Nine women were interviewed about their experiences with MWIJF as performers, composers and/or organizers, as were the founder of the festival and current CEO. The importance of the festival to the participating artists’ creative and career development and its role in supporting emerging women artists are revealed through their comments. The festival is contextualized with reference to the historical experiences of women jazz musicians both in Australia and internationally.
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Fornäs, J. (2003) ‘Swinging Differences: Reconstructed Identities in the Early Swedish Jazz Age’. In Jazz Planet, ed. E. Taylor Atkins, 207–24. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi.
Gourse, L. (1995) Madame Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Placksin, S. (1982) Jazzwomen: 1900 to the Present. London: Pluto Press.
Sharpe, J. (2008) I Wanted to be a Jazz Musician. Canberra: National Film and Sound Archive.
SIMA (Sydney Improvised Music Association) (n.d.) http://www.sima.org.au/22014YoungWomensJazzWorkshops/945/n/3/0/0/ (accessed 14 September 2014).
Stewart, A. (2007) Making the Scene: Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz. Berkeley: University of California Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520249530.001.0001
Stokes, W. R. (2000) Living the Jazz Life: Conversations with Forty Musicians about their Careers in Jazz. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tucker, S. (n.d.) ‘Women in Jazz’. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_women.htm (accessed 14 September 2014).
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Whiteoak, J. (1995) ‘Australian Women in Performance-Time Composition: 1880–1925’. In Repercussions: Australian Composing Women’s Festival and Conference, 1994, ed. Thérèse Radic, 21–24. Clayton, VIC: National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University.
——(2001) ‘Popular Music, Militarism, Women and the Early “Brass Band” in Australia’. Australasian Music Research 6: 27–48.
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2015-06-16
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Denson, L. (2015). Perspectives on the Melbourne International Women’s Jazz Festival. Jazz Research Journal, 8(1-2), 163-181. https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.v8i1-2.26774
