Ofer Gazit Jazz Migrations (Paperback) American Musicspheres
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Further Details Title: Jazz Migrations Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0197682782 EAN: 9780197682784 ISBN: 9780197682784 Type: Styles Subtitle: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Release Date: 08/29/2024 Description: Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to processes of gentrification and cultural institutionalization. In Jazz Migrations, author Ofer Gazit discusses the impact of contemporary transnational migration on New York jazz, examining its effects on educational institutions, club scenes, and jam sessions. Drawing on four years of musical participation in the scene, as well as interviews with musicians, audience members, venue owners, industry professionals, and institutional actors, Gazit transports readers from music schools in Japan, Israel, and India to rehearsals and private lessons in American jazz programs, and to New York's immigrant jazz hangouts: an immigrant-owned music school in the Bronx; a weekly jam session in a Haitian bar in central Brooklyn; a Colombian-owned jazz room in Jackson Heights, Queens; and a members-only club in Manhattan. Along the way, he introduces the improvisatory practices of a cast of well-known and aspiring musicians: a South Indian guitarist's visions of John Coltrane and Carnatic music; a Chilean saxophonist's intimate dialogue with the sound of Sonny Rollins; an Israeli clarinetist finding a home in Brazilian Choro and in Louis Armstrong's legacy; and a multiple Grammy-nominated Cuban drummer from the Bronx. Jazz Migrations concludes with a call for a collective reconsideration of the meaning of genre boundaries, senses of belonging, and ethnic identity in American music. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 236mm Item Length: 157mm Item Width: 15mm Item Weight: 318g Author: Ofer Gazit Genre: Music Dance & Theatre Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences Book Series: American Musicspheres Release Year: 2024 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
