Here’s the cover of Jazz and Culture in a Global Age, the new book by Stuart Nicholson, expected in paperback and hardback in June. Weighing in at 312 pages, the book, according to the publisher Northeastern University Press explores the “past, present, and future of jazz in a global context.”

Nicholson’s last book, Is Jazz Dead? (Or Has It Moved to a New Address), published in 2005, proved compelling but controversial with its view that non-Americans are taking the lead in jazz globally and went on to explore notions of globalisation and ‘glocalisation’ where artists incorporate their own national musical heritage into the language of jazz.

The new book covers, among other topics, what the publisher blurb refers to as “jazz in the iPod musical economy”, notions of “jazz and American exceptionalism”, and jazz as “colonial tip of the sword.”