Dr Peter Elsdon's Outputs (16)

Interaction as Freedom, Tradition, and Mentorship: a performer-centred investigation into interaction in jazz performance (2023)
Thesis
Banks, D. Interaction as Freedom, Tradition, and Mentorship: a performer-centred investigation into interaction in jazz performance. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4565247

The purpose of this thesis is twofold: to construct a performer-centred autoethnographic methodology and to re-examine interaction in jazz performance utilising this methodology to recast interaction and position it as a means by which an ensemble's... Read More about Interaction as Freedom, Tradition, and Mentorship: a performer-centred investigation into interaction in jazz performance.

Jazz and its Sources: Searching for the Creative Process (2020)
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. (2020). Jazz and its Sources: Searching for the Creative Process. In The Oxford Handbook of the Creative Process in Music. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190636197.001.0001

This chapter discusses the kinds of sources that jazz scholars have used when interrogating the creative process. It examines the uses of recordings and notational sources, and considers the different forms and functions they take and the possibiliti... Read More about Jazz and its Sources: Searching for the Creative Process.

Composing for improvisers : information flow, collaborative composition and individual freedom in large ensembles (2019)
Thesis
Freed, M. Composing for improvisers : information flow, collaborative composition and individual freedom in large ensembles. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4222576

Rooted in the lineages of European ‘free’ improvisation, jazz, the New York ‘Downtown’ scene, Chicago’s AACM, and various ‘indeterminate’ approaches, this research project deals with the creation and evaluation of a portfolio of compositions, each of... Read More about Composing for improvisers : information flow, collaborative composition and individual freedom in large ensembles.

Figuring improvisation (2018)
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. (2019). Figuring improvisation. In N. Gebhardt, N. Rustin-Paschal, & T. Whyton (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (221-230). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315315805-21

Improvisation is often regarded as a central, constitutive, and even defining element of jazz, and as a result it has figured large in jazz studies. This chapter sets out to explore the contingency of improvisation, looking at how it has been figured... Read More about Figuring improvisation.

Jazz and the Live Performance Event (2018)
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. (2018). Jazz and the Live Performance Event. In R. Thumpston, & N. Reyland (Eds.), Music, analysis, and the body: experiments, explorations, and embodiments (209-224). Routledge

Viewing Empathy in Jazz Performance (2017)
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. (2017). Viewing Empathy in Jazz Performance. In E. King, & C. Waddington (Eds.), Music and empathy (157-172). Routledge

In this chapter, the author explains how the empathic comes to play an important role in the way empathic researcher view performance, and jazz performance in particular. She develops an argument about the way in which certain fundamental tropes used... Read More about Viewing Empathy in Jazz Performance.

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. 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.

Embodied listening and the music of Sigur Ros (2015)
Journal Article
Elsdon, P. (2015). Embodied listening and the music of Sigur Ros. Popular Musicology Online,

In 1990 Susan McClary and Robert Walser appealed for a musicology which could account for the effects of rock, or as they put it: ‘a greater willingness to try to circumscribe an effect metaphorically, to bring one’s own experience as a human being t... Read More about Embodied listening and the music of Sigur Ros.

Rebecoming analogue : groove, breakbeats and sampling (2015)
Thesis
Oliver, R. A. Rebecoming analogue : groove, breakbeats and sampling. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218015

In this thesis I address two related questions: how does groove work in breakbeats, and how might it enable musical participation across time and space?

In order to do this, I analyse breakbeats as they are heard in their original funk context and... Read More about Rebecoming analogue : groove, breakbeats and sampling.

Re-imagining improvisation: listening, discourse and aesthetics (2013)
Other
Elsdon, P. (2013). Re-imagining improvisation: listening, discourse and aesthetics

Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert (2013)
Book
Elsdon, P. (2013). Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aosobl/9780199779253.001.0001

Keith Jarrett ranks among the most accomplished and influential pianists in jazz history. His Köln Concert stands among the most important jazz recordings of the past four decades, not only because of the music on the record, but also because of the... Read More about Keith Jarrett's The Köln Concert.

Pathways in the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: from precursor works to the first two symphonies (2011)
Thesis
Phillips, J. P. N. Pathways in the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: from precursor works to the first two symphonies. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4212940

This thesis presents analyses of the first and second symphonies of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. It starts with an introductory part consisting of two chapters outlining the overall structure of what follows and describing four features and a number of... Read More about Pathways in the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: from precursor works to the first two symphonies.

Style and the improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts (2008)
Journal Article
Elsdon, P. (2008). Style and the improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts. Jazz Perspectives, 2(1), 51-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/17494060801949000

This article outlines an approach to analysing Keith Jarrett's solo improvisations. I explore an approach based on topical theory, suggesting that Jarrett seems to employ a range of recognisable styles as a means of creating formal architecture. Usin... Read More about Style and the improvised in Keith Jarrett's solo concerts.

Jazz recordings and the capturing of performance
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. Jazz recordings and the capturing of performance. . The University of Hull

The potential of the jazz record
Book Chapter
Elsdon, P. The potential of the jazz record.

It is often said there is no jazz without the record, or that the history of jazz is in fact the story of recordings. Such positions always recall the limits of the record, compared to the live experience. And yet, for many listeners, the most import... Read More about The potential of the jazz record.