The Inaudible Music was the first book and remains the only to encompass jazz, gender and Australian modernity. With the global rise of what are referred to as the New Jazz Studies, it has become regarded as a pioneering benchmark study. First published in 2000.
'Jazz is arguably the most important form of popular music in the twentieth century. Personally, I have no doubt that it is. And this brilliant book has powerfully underlined that view.' Eric Myers, former National Jazz Co-ordinator, JazzCord, 2000
Bruce Johnson is an academic, musician and author. His most recent work is Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation (2020), and Ted Nettelbeck opened his review of this new book by stating: 'Professor Bruce Johnson is arguably Australia's foremost scholar of Australian jazz history.'