(2017) “A Kind of ‘in-between’: Jazz and Politics in Portugal (1958-1971)” My first contribution to Routledge’s Transnational Studies in Jazz series, both as editor-advisor and an author, was Jazz and Totalitarianism, edited by Bruce Johnson. My chapter investigates the use of jazz music as protest against the Portuguese New State (Estado Novo) regime and its colonial policies (1958-1961), and as a symbol of freedom to configure new social realities in Portugal (1971-1974). In 1958, Salazar, under international pressure, eased repression and promoted