Fr. 220.00

Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan

English · Hardback

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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.

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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


About the author










Marie Buscatto is Full Professor in Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in France.


Summary

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.

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