This is a work in progress--the annotated bibliography to my dissertation on jazz jam sessions in Chicago, which is a backdoor attempt to understand how we coordinate our activities one with another, in anything from automobile traffic, to social movements, to police shootings.

I'm constructing this largely for my own purposes, because I haven't found that Endnotes and such software organize information in a way that's useful to me--in the way that it can be organized using hypertext. (And subsequently, in a way that will allow me or you to search for anything in the full text of the annotations, rather than through keywords.)

But I also think it could be helpful enough to others interested in these pieces that it should be available for your perusal. The summaries here might direct you to read the originals, to direct you to things that might interest you or prove relevant to your own work. They should not be read as faithful condensations of the original texts, and some of them are downright churlish critiques of those texts. Please take my dissmissive or combative ruminations on some texts with a grain of salt. While some of those critiques may identify legitimate shortcomings in reasoning, others reflect more the distance of my own work and perspective from those of other authors. Accept my critiques or dismissals of these authors' works at your own leisure if and only if you check them out yourself. And please let me know if you think I'm missing something or need to check out some other relevant works (email me at npdempse(at)uchicago.edu). While I don't pretend that this bibliography is trending toward exhaustive in any subject area, I like to know what I'm missing.

The Bibliography

--Nick Dempsey
The University of Chicago
February 2006