Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II ParisJazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation

This review examines two recent monographs that explore the concept of "jazz diaspora/s": Rashida Braggs’s Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris and Bruce Johnson’s Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation. While both authors engage with the term, they use it in distinct and sometimes contradictory ways, especially in terms of its theoretical implications for jazz scholarship and its global significance. By highlighting their approaches to power and identity, this review clarifies how each author contributes to understanding jazz as both an African diasporic music and a global phenomenon