Scott DeVeaux

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Scott Knowles DeVeaux (born November 11, 1954 ) is an American musicologist who specializes in jazz .

DeVeaux is an Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Virginia , where he has been since 1974. In 2001/02 he was visiting professor at the University of Odense .

He is best known for a study on the origin of bebop in 1997, which received several awards and which particularly illuminates the social and economic environment and the influence of protagonists of the swing era such as Coleman Hawkins . The book arose from his dissertation (1985) at the University of California, Berkeley with Olly Wilson. In 2009 he published his jazz story, written with jazz critic Gary Giddins .

In 1992/1993 he was a NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Fellow, for whom he wrote a study on jazz consumers in the USA. He is the editor of the Readers in American Music series at Oxford University Press.

DeVeaux is also a jazz composer.

Fonts

  • The Birth of Bebop - a social and musical history. University of California Press, Berkeley 1997, MacMillan, 1999.
  • Jazz in America. Who's listening? Research Division Report No. 31, 1995, Washington DC, NEA , Seven Locks Press, Carson, California 1995.
  • with Gary Giddins: Jazz. WWNorton, 2009.
  • with William Howard Kenney (Editor): The music of James Scott . Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC 1992.
  • Bebop and the recording industry. In: Journal of the American Musicological Society , 1989.
  • The Emergence of the Jazz Concert. In: American Music. Volume 7. 1989, pp. 6-29.
  • Constructing the jazz tradition: Jazz Historiography. In: Black American Literature Forum , Volume 25, 1991, p. 551; reprinted in: Robert O'Meally (Ed.): The Jazz Cadence of American Culture. Columbia University Press, 1998, online .
  • Nice Work if you can get it - Thelonious Monk and popular song. In: Black Music Research Journal , Volume 19, 1999; reprinted in: Rob van der Bliek (Ed.): Thelonious Monk Reader. Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Ascap Deems Taylor Award, Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Sound Research
  2. ^ Jazz in Transition: Coleman Hawkins and Howard McGhee 1935–1945
personal data
SURNAME DeVeaux, Scott
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeVeaux, Scott Knowles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz researcher
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1954