All Outputs (7)

Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood (2024)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2025). Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood. In Jazz and Literature: An Introduction (103-110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003288275-16

This chapter explores musical responses to a selection of poems written by Martin Nikolaj Hansen in the first half of the twentieth century. His verse is steeped in the bucolic imagery of his surroundings on the small island of Als that lies off Denm... Read More about Hvor En Var Baen: Places of Childhood.

Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene (2024)
Book Chapter
Medbøe, H., Maclean, D., & Raine, S. (2024). Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003212638-49

This chapter draws on the production and content of the Scottish Jazz Archive (SJA) oral histories collection alongside interviews with Scottish jazz musicians. Specifically, we consider how the Scottish jazz community is co-creating its own diaspori... Read More about Vivid Stories: Oral Histories, Collective Memory, and the Scottish Jazz Scene.

First Monday Revisited: Production and Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age (2024)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H., & Dias, J. (2024). First Monday Revisited: Production and Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003212638-19

The chapter is a reflection on the radical changes that characterize the music industry in the digital age. With reference to European jazz collectives and cooperative initiatives, the authors explore the various informal strategies jazz musicians de... Read More about First Monday Revisited: Production and Dissemination of Diasporic Jazz in the Digital Age.

From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz (2024)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., & Medbøe, H. (2024). From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz. In R. Prokop, & R. Reitsamer (Eds.), Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World. Bloomsbury Publishing

As evidenced from the festival stage and behind the scenes (Raine, 2020), the UK jazz scene continues to be male-dominated and middle-class (Umney and Kretsos, 2015; Umney, 2016). Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with jazz musicians, educator... Read More about From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz.

Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery (2022)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., Medboe, H., & Dias, J. (2022). Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery. In G. Morrow, D. Nordgård, & P. Tschmuck (Eds.), Rethinking the Music Business: Music Contexts, Rights, Data, and COVID-19 (109-127). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09532-0_7

This chapter considers how four festivals across the UK – Brecon Jazz Festival, Brilliant Corners in Belfast, Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, and Manchester Jazz Festival – have adapted their processes and practices in order to reimagine the jazz fe... Read More about Jazz Festivals in the Time of COVID-19: Exploring Exposed Fragilities, Community Resilience and Industry Recovery.

Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world (2019)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2019). Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world. In T. Howell (Ed.), The Nature of Nordic Music (123-138). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462851

Jazz has been a global music since its inception. In conflating Scandinavian jazz with the production of the ‘Nordic tone’, several accounts of European jazz present the music as a refreshing alternative to a corrupt and stagnant American tradition,... Read More about Cold commodities: Discourses of decay and purity in a globalised jazz world.

Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (2016)
Book Chapter
Medboe, H. (2016). Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North. In Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North (149-166). Norvik Press

Since the 1970s, jazz from Scandinavia has represented a distinct reimagining of the erstwhile American music form with the term “Nordic tone” being liberally applied in the marketing and critical discussion of jazz from the region. While undoubtedly... Read More about Beyond Borealism: New Perspectives on the North.