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IASPM Canada Article/Chapter Prize: 2020

IASPM CA

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Congratulations to Vanessa Blais-Tremblay on her award-winning article!

Vanessa Blais-Tremblay. (2019) “Where You Are Accepted, You Blossom: Toward Care Ethics in Jazz Historiography,” Jazz and Culture, vol.2: 59 - 83.

Committee members/Comité des prix: Alyssa Woods, Chris McDonald, and Steven Baur (Chair)

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Committee comments: The 2020 IASPM-Canada Article/Chapter Prize goes to Vanessa Blais-Tremblay for her article “Where You Are Accepted, You Blossom: Toward Care Ethics in Jazz Historiography,” published in the journal Jazz and Culture.

Blais-Tremblay exposes exclusionary discourses in jazz history and criticism that have understood motherhood and care-giving as incompatible with excellence in jazz performance and creation. She carefully theorizes an aesthetic grounded in care-ethics that makes visible the vital contributions of jazz history’s “badass mothers,” women whose commitment to care-giving opened paths to influencing and sustaining vital jazz traditions, contributions that have been largely unseen in jazz scholarship.

Employing feminist scholarship and critical race theory, Blais-Tremblay interprets oral histories to deconstruct the binary of “invisibility or exceptionalism” that has heretofore excluded or contained women in jazz historiography.

Her use of the concept of motherwork as a way for understanding personal and musical mentorship in African-American and African-Canadian communities is both original and illuminating, as is her application of the idea of blood-mother and other-mothers in those communities. The prize committee appreciated in particular Blais-Tremblay’s perceptive handling of an “awkward” archival interview with Daisy Peterson Sweeney, using this “failed” interaction with a journalist to tease out important and revealing tensions around race, class and gender. Her sensitive and insightful treatments of the life histories studied here challenge contemporary norms in feminist discourse and underscore how this work contributes productively to feminist scholarship and jazz history, with ramifications that resound well beyond both.


Commentaires: Le prix d’article/chapitre de l’IASPM-Canada 2020 est remis Ă  Vanessa Blais-Tremblay pour son article « When You Are Accepted, You Blossom : Toward Care Ethics in Jazz Historiography », paru dans la revue Jazz and Culture.

Dans son article, Blais-Tremblay expose les discours d’exclusion au sein de l’historiographie du jazz qui prĂ©sentent la maternitĂ© et le travail du care comme incompatibles avec l’excellence en performance et crĂ©ation jazz. Elle met de l’avant une thĂ©orie esthĂ©tique fondĂ©e sur l’éthique du care, qui rend visible les contributions essentielles des mères « badass » dans l’histoire du jazz ainsi que la manière dont le travail de care a pu soutenir et influencer d’importantes traditions du jazz. Ces contributions demeurent inĂ©dites dans l’étude du jazz.

Blais-Tremblay fait usage de thĂ©ories fĂ©ministes et de la critical race theory afin d’interprĂ©ter des rĂ©cits oraux et de dĂ©construire la polaritĂ© « invisibilitĂ©/exceptionnalisme » qui a jusqu’ici exclu ou confinĂ© les femmes dans l’historiographie jazz.

Son usage du concept de « motherwork Â» afin de comprendre le mentorat personnel et musical au sein des communautĂ©s Noires est original et Ă©difiant, similaire Ă  son application de l’idĂ©e de « blood-mother » et « other-mothers » dans ces mĂŞmes communautĂ©s. Le comitĂ© de prix a particulièrement apprĂ©ciĂ© la manière dont Blais-Tremblay a gĂ©rĂ© une entrevue archivistique inconfortable avec Daisy Peterson Sweeney, utilisant une interaction problĂ©matique avec une journaliste pour rĂ©vĂ©ler d’importantes tensions entourant les notions de race, de classe et de genre. Son traitement sensible et Ă©clairĂ© des histoires qu’elle a Ă©tudiĂ©es conteste les normes contemporaines du discours fĂ©ministe et contribue de manière significative aux Ă©tudes fĂ©ministes et Ă  l’histoire du jazz, avec des rĂ©percussions allant au-delĂ  de ces deux disciplines.