Foreword. Who is jazz? / George E. Lewis
Introduction / Goffredo Plastino and Philip V. Bohlman
Place. Jazz and the politics of home in Scandinavia / Fabian Holt ; Swinging in Balkan mode: on the innovative approach of Milcho Leviev / Claire Levy ; Azerbaijani Mugham jazz / Inna Naroditskaya ; Jazz and its social meanings in Iran: from cultural colonialism to the universal / Laudan Nooshin
History. Jazz at the edge of empire / Philip V. Bohlman ; That Gypsy in France: Django Reinhardt's occupation blouze / Andy Fry ; Jazz, race, and politics in colonial Portugal: discourses and representations / Pedro Roxo and Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
Media. Traveling music: Mulatu Astatke and the genesis of Ethiopian jazz / Kay Kaufman Shelemay ; The medium is the message? Jazz diplomacy and the democratic imagination / Richard C. Jankowsky ; Musical echoes: Diasporic listening and the creation of a world of South African jazz / Carol Ann Muller
Globalization/Indigenization. Jazz Napoletano: a passion for improvisation / Goffredo Plastino ; In search of compatible virtuosities: floating point and fusion in India / Niko Higgins ; Improvising diasporan identities: Armenian jazz / Anahid Kassabian
Race. Culture, commodity, palimpsest: locating jazz in the world / Travis A. Jackson ; A world(ly) jazz autonomy: Hazel Scott and Hollywood's musical-racial matrix / Kristin McGee ; Black music's body politics / Ronald Radano
Jazz: music of the multitude? / Richard Middleton.
