Platform Jazz - Algorithmic Music Culture on TikTok

Summary

At first glance, jazz and TikTok may not seem like an obvious match: Spontaneous ensemble interaction, long improvisations, and complex harmonies on a short-form video platform? Still, jazz is highly popular on TikTok, although only very specific facets of jazz culture achieve high visibility on the platform. Based on interviews with popular content creators, Benjamin Burkhart reveals that the specific representation of jazz on TikTok is highly dependent on the socio-technical interaction between the platform’s affordances and the musicians’ algorithmic imaginaries.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Burkhart
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.12.2025
• EAN: 9783837679137
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-7913-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Studien zur Popularmusik
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Jazz, Music, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Theatre Management, Musicology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, TikTok, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, EDUCATION / Research, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, MUSIC / Business Aspects, PERFORMING ARTS / Business Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, auseinandersetzen, Management & management techniques, Philosophy & theory of education, Theory of music & musicology, Sales & marketing, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Consumerism, Culture and institutions, History, geographic treatment, biography, Public performances, Stage presentations, General principles and musical forms