Shaping Jazz (eBook)

Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form

Damon J. Phillips (Autor)

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2013
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4648-1 (ISBN)

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Damon J. Phillips is the James P. Gorman Professor of Business Strategy at Columbia University and a faculty affiliate of Columbia's Center for Jazz Studies and the Center for Organizational Innovation.

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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 1920s to early 1930s, 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 6 halftones. 17 line illus. 14 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Adoption Narratives • Advertising • African Americans • All Blues • Ambiguity • anti-jazz sentiments • archivist • authenticity • Bandleader • Benny Goodman • Berlin • Black Musicians • Bottled water • Calculation • Case study • Centrality • Charlie Parker • Chicago Tribune • City High • Classical music • Commercialization • Composer • Consumers • Critics • cultural elites • cultural markets • Cultural Objects • cultural products • curator • Diffusion • discographical canon • Discography • disconnected cities • disconnectedness • Dizzy Gillespie • Duke Ellington • Dummy variable (statistics) • Earl Hines • Early Adopter • Empirical Evidence • Ethnomusicology • Explanation • Finding • for example • Fraud • Genre • geographic mobility • Geography • German jazz • Green Technology • highbrow • Identity • Identity preservation • identity sequences • identity threats • Improvisation • in Berlin • Incumbents • independent record label • Irving Berlin • Jazz • Jazz in Germany • Jazz Music • jazz recordings • Jazz Standards • Jazz Tour • Jelly Roll Morton • jonny spielt auf • Kenny G • King of Jazz • king oliver • Legitimacy • L'enfant et les sortilèges • Longevity • Louis Armstrong • Marketing • Market Participant • Markets • mass market • Milenburg Joys • Miles Davis • Mobility Networks • musical composition • Musicians • Music Industry • Music Is • Music of Germany • nanotechnology • narrative • newspaper • New York • Olu Dara • Operationalization • Oral History • orchestra • Organizational identity • organizational role identities • Paul Whiteman • Phonograph • popular music • Prediction • product appeal • Production • Pseudonym • pseudonyms • Publication • Quantile • Race • Reception • record company • record company deception • recording industry • recording location • recording studio • record label • record labels • record producer • Reinterpretation • reissue • re-recording • Rhapsody in Blue • Sam Wooding • saxophone • sheet music • Smooth Jazz • Social Congruence • Social distance • Social Structure • Social Systems • sociological congruence • Sociology • Software • statistical significance • Stock market crash • syncopation • Technology • The Catalogue • THE CHICAGO DEFENDER • The Members • The Narrative • The New York Times • The Record Company • The Various • Thought • To this Day • uniqueness • University of California Press • Victorian-era firms • Weimar Germany • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4648-X / 140084648X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4648-1 / 9781400846481