Foreword: Who Is Jazz? George E. Lewis Acknowledgments Sound Examples on the Accompanying CD Introduction Goffredo Plastino and Philip V. Bohlman Part I Place 1 Jazz and the Politics of Home in Scandinavia Fabian Holt 2 Swinging in Balkan Mode: On the Innovative Approach of Milcho Leviev Claire Levy 3 Azerbaijani Mugham Jazz Inna Naroditskaya 4 Jazz and Its Social Meanings in Iran: From Cultural Colonialism to the Universal Laudan Nooshin Part II History 5 Jazz at the Edge of Empire Philip V. Bohlman 6 That Gypsy in France: Django Reinhardt's Occupation Blouze Andy Fry 7 Jazz, Race, and Politics in Colonial Portugal: Discourses and Representations Pedro Roxo and Salwa El- Shawan Castelo-Branco Part III Media 8 Traveling Music: Mulatu Astatke and the Genesis of Ethiopian Jazz Kay Kaufman Shelemay 9 The Medium Is the Message? Jazz Diplomacy and the Democratic Imagination Richard C. Jankowsky 10 Musical Echoes: Diasporic Listening and the Creation of a World of South African Jazz Carol Ann Muller Part IV Globalization/Indigenization 11 Jazz Napoletano: A Passion for Improvisation Goffredo Plastino 12 In Search of Compatible Virtuosities: Floating Point and Fusion in India Niko Higgins 13 Improvising Diasporan Identities: Armenian Jazz Anahid Kassabian Part V Race 14 Culture, Commodity, Palimpsest: Locating Jazz in the World Travis A. Jackson 15 A World(ly) Jazz Autonomy: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's Racial-Musical Matrix Kristin McGee 16 Black Music's Body Politics Ronald Radano Epilogue: Jazz: Music of the Multitude? Richard Middleton Lyrics and Translations Contributors Index.