Shaping jazz : cities, labels, and the global emergence of an art form / Damon J. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Damon J., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Social aspects.

Jazz.

Jazz--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and markets--in particular, organizations and geography--in the development of early twentieth-century jazz. Damon Phillips considers why places like New York played more important roles as engines of diffusion than as the sources of standards. He demonstrates why and when certain geographical references in tune and group titles were considered more desirable. He also explains why a place like Berlin, which produced jazz abundantly from the 1920's to early 1930's, is now on jazz's historical sidelines. Phillips shows the key influences of firms in the recording industry, including how record companies and their executives affected what music was recorded, and why major companies would rerelease recordings under artistic pseudonyms. He indicates how a recording's appeal was related to the narrative around its creation, and how the identities of its firm and musicians influenced the tune's long-run popularity. Applying fascinating ideas about market emergence to a music's commercialization, Shaping Jazz offers a unique look at the origins of a groundbreaking art form.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Sociological Congruence and the Shaping of Recorded Jazz

Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Geographical Disconnectedness

Chapter 2. Further Exploring the Salience of Geography

Chapter 3. Sociological Congruence and the Puzzle of Early German Jazz

Chapter 4. Sociological Congruence and Record Company Comparative Advantage

Chapter 5. The Sociological Congruence of Record Company Deception

Chapter 6. The Sociological Congruence of Identity Sequences and Adoption Narratives

Chapter 7. Pulling It Together and Stretching It Beyond

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781400846481

140084648X

OCLC:

847526698