BRUCE JOHNSON

This folder is dedicated to the writings of Professor A J B (Bruce) Johnson, perhaps best-known as the author of the Oxford Companion to Australian jazz (1987). A prolific writer on Australian jazz, his articles on this website already appear in many folders, and in the fulness of time they will hopefully be uploaded to this folder. Click on the INDEX button for a list of articles in this folder.

A GLANCE OVER AN OLD LEFT SHOULDER

by Harry Stein

Reviewed by Bruce Johnson

JazzChord, Sep/Oct, 1994

Who’s the old guy?” And the question was asked in the manner of - ‘why would you want to talk to someone that old?” During a break in a pub gig I had excused myself from a conversation so that I could talk to Harry Stein. I wanted to ask him a question about the possible relationship between the promulgation of the Zdhanov doctrines in Czechoslovakia and the Graeme Bell tour of 1947-8…

THE INAUDIBLE MUSIC: JAZZ, GENDER AND AUSTRALIAN MODERNITY

by Bruce Johnson

Reviewed by Adam Havas

The Inaudible Music is one of the books whose subject matter is so complex and so rich with social connotations that it offers the reader the opportunity of grasping broader social and cultural processes through the prism of the cultural practice announced in the ambitious title...

ANTIPODEAN RIFFS: ESSAYS ON AUSTRALASIAN JAZZ

Edited by Bruce Johnson

Reviewed by Ted Nettelbeck

July 17, 2017

Professor Bruce Johnson is a jazz trumpeter and distinguished scholar who has published extensively on jazz, including compiling and editing The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (1987). He has held several academic appointments both within and outside Australia and is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communications, University of Technology Sydney. The genesis to this book was his “call for papers on Australasian jazz”, which generated the 14 essays…