Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan - A Passionate Search for Self-Expression

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.

List 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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marie Buscatto, Marie (University of Paris 1 Pantheon So Buscatto
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032603872
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260387-2
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Transnational Studies in Jazz
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Jazz, Japan, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Popular Music