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Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen (2016)
Book
Elsdon, P. (2016). B. Heile, P. Elsdon, & J. Doctor (Eds.). Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen. New York: Oxford University Press

Watching Jazz: Encounters with Jazz Performance on Screen is the first systematic study of jazz on screen media. Where earlier studies have focused almost entirely on the role and portrayal of jazz in Hollywood film, the present book engages with a p... Read More about Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen.

Framing jazz: thoughts on representation and embodiment (2016)
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. (2016). Framing jazz: thoughts on representation and embodiment. In B. Heile, P. Elsdon, & J. Doctor (Eds.), Watching jazz: Encounters with jazz performance on screen (37-56). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199347650.003.0002

Abstract: Audiovisual representations of jazz performances provide us with more information than audio recordings. The camera not only allows us access to music performances, it also constructs vantage points by framing its subjects in specific ways.... Read More about Framing jazz: thoughts on representation and embodiment.