Sherrie Tucker
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Publications

Books

Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s (Duke University Press, 2000)

Works in Progress

Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen.
An exploration of struggles over definitions of American democracy during World War II as they played out on a famous and supposedly racially integrated dance floor. (Duke University Press. Projected completion: January 2007).

Co-editor with Nichole Rustin, Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies (currently under consideration at Duke University Press)

Chapters in Books

"Women in Jazz," ed. Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby, African American Music: A History (New York: Routledge, 2006), 528-41

"Bordering on Community: Improvising Women Improvising Women-in-Jazz," ed. Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin, The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan, 2004), 244-67

"When Subjects Don't Come Out," ed. Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell, Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 293-310

"Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band" (reprint), Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (3rd. ed.), ed. Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois (New York: Routledge, 2000), 466-77

"Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band," Sung/Unsung: Jazzwomen (symposium booklet), Smithsonian Institution and 651, An Arts Center, 1996, 20-7

Recent Journal Articles

"Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The Subjectless Subject of New Jazz Studies," The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism (forthcoming)

"'White Woman' as Jazz Collector in the Film New Orleans (1947)," Institute for the Study of American Music Newsletter vol. 35, no. 1 (Fall 2005), 1-2, 13-14

"Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies," Current Musicology no. 71-73 (Spring 2001-Spring 2002), 375-408

"Uplift and Downbeats: What if Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds" (reprint) The Journal of Texas Music History vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 2002), 30-38

"A Roundtable on Ken Burns's Jazz," ed. Geoffrey Jacques, Journal of Popular Music Studies vol. 13, no 2 (September 1, 2001), 207-225

"Uplift and Downbeats: If Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds," Jazz Research Proceedings, International Association of Jazz Educators (January 2001), 26-31

"The Prairie View Co-eds: Black College Women Musicians in Class and on the Road," Black Music Research Journal vol. 19, no. 1 (Spring 1999), 93-126

"Nobody's Sweethearts: Gender, Race, Jazz, and the Darlings of Rhythm," American Music vol. 16, no. 3 (Fall 1998), 255-288

"Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band" (reprint), Oral History Review vol. 26, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 1999), 67-84

"Female Big Bands, Male Mass Audiences: Gendered Performances in a Theater of War," Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture no. 2, (1998), 64-89

"Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band" (reprint), Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture no. 1 (1997), 12-23

"West Coast Women: A Jazz Genealogy," Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology vol. 8, no. 1 (Winter 1996/1997), 5-22

"Working the Swing Shift: Women Musicians During World War II," Labor's Heritage vol. 8, no. 1 (Summer 1996), 46

"'And Fellas, They're American Girls!' On the Road With the Sharon Rogers All-Girl Band," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies vol 16, no. 2/3 (Spring 1996), 128

"Where the Blues and the Truth Lay Hiding: Rememory of Jazz in Black Women's Fiction," Frontiers, A Journal of Women Studies vol 13, no. 2 (1993), 26

Research Study

A Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazz Women. A research study for the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park (Report submitted September 30, 2004)

Reviews

"Radical Harmonies," American Music vol. 23, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 133-135

"Flying Higher: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II," Journal of Military History vol. 67, no. 2 (January 2003)

"Swing, That Modern Sound," American Historical Review (June 2002), 901-2

"Jazz Cultures," American Studies, vol. 43, no. 2 (Summer 2002), 154-5

"Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit, 1920-60," Michigan Historical Review, vol. 28, no. 1 (Spring 2002), 135-6

"The Thelonious Monk Reader," CAML Review," (Canadian Association of Music Libraries) vol. 29, no. 3 (November 2001), 25-26

"Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit," American Studies, vol. 42, no. 2 (Fall/Summer 2001), 171-2

"The New Negroes and Their Music and Swing Changes: Big Band Jazz in New Deal America," Journal of Musicological Research vol. 18, no. 3 (1999), 271

Encyclopedia Entries

"Melba Liston," Notable Women: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Susan Ware and Stacy Braukman (Belknap Press, 2005)

"Women" and "Historiography" (essays), plus biographical entries, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, ed. Barry Kernfeld, (MacMillan, 2001)

Selected Popular Writing

"Rocking the Cradle of Jazz," Ms. Magazine vol. 14, no. 4 (Winter 2004/2005), 68-71

Liner notes, Kit McClure Band, The Sweethearts Project: a Tribute to the International Sweethearts of Rhythm (Red Hot Records RH 9004) 2004

"Women in Jazz," Ken Burns Jazz website, PBS, January 2001

"A Hazy Look at Women in Jazz," New York Times, August 20, 2000, AR 29

"Jazzwomen Jam," monthly column, Jazz Now Magazine, 1999-2000


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