Introduction : jazz as a collective problem / Nicholas Gebhardt -- "Complaining time is over" : network and collective strategies of the New York Musicians Organization / Michael C. Heller -- Pitched battles : Dutch improvised music, authorities and strategies / Loes Rusch -- Sound visions and free initiatives : the cultural politics of creative improvised music collectives / A. Scott Currie -- Musical hybridity in the new European city : the jazz hip hop collectives of C-Mon & Kypski and Kytopia / Kristin McGee -- Collective cultures and live jazz in Birmingham / Tim Wall and Simon Barber -- San Francisco State University's Music Federation : the political machine behind a jazz cooperative for teachers / Meredith Eliassen -- Minnet : transcending genre boundaries, organizing diversity / Alf Arvidsson and Jörgen Adolfsson -- Wonderbrass as a South Wales community jazz collective / Rob Smith -- Jazz networks in Austria : the Jazz Werkstan Initiative / Christa Bruckner-Haring and Michael Kahr -- Improvisational conduct and case studies from the margins : an insider's view on negotiating the collective / Petter Frost Fadnes -- Collective practice and digital mediation / Andrew Dubber -- Conclusion : toward a collective jazz studies / Tony Whyton

1. Jazz -- Social aspects
2. Jazz -- History and criticism