Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan
A Passionate Search for Self-Expression
Series: Transnational Studies in Jazz;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 30 October 2024
- ISBN 9781032603872
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages162 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 Illustrations, black & white; 11 Halftones, black & white 658
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Short description:
Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art? to assert one?s creativity, passion, and self-expression?establishing it as an art form. This ethnographic survey contextualizes a shift in the Japanese jazz world over the last thirty years.
MoreLong description:
Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art?not to ?japanize? jazz, but to assert one?s creativity, passion, and capacity for self-expression?establishing it as an art form with its own sense of musicality and cultural, social, and economic concerns. This ethnographic survey contextualizes a shift in the Japanese jazz world over the last 30 years: What once was a culture dependent on the American influence is now a thriving local scene creating a wide variety of original, transnational compositions. Based on digital and physical observations and extensive interviews with nearly three dozen Japanese professional jazz musicians while featuring portraits of well-known artists, this empirical investigation into how, where, and why jazz is performed, opens doors to touch on culturally sensitive and taboo topics such as gender, sexuality, and indigenization. Suited for readers in global jazz studies and cultural study programs alike, this book is a timely sociological consideration of the Japanese jazz diaspora, a necessary update to break free of established tropes and clichés envisioning Japanese artists as mere imitators.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
1. Jazz Clubs at the Heart of Japanese Jazz Making
2: A Passionate Choice for Jazz: Escaping One?s Social Destiny
3. Two Paths towards Self-expression
4. The Paradoxical Feminization of Japanese Jazz
Conclusion
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