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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786967803321

Autore

Phillips Damon J. <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-4008-4648-X

Edizione

[Core Textbook]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Disciplina

781.6509

Soggetti

Jazz - Social aspects

Jazz - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.