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  • Jazz Migrations: Movement as Place Among New York Musicians

    Jazz Migrations by Gazit, Ofer;

    Movement as Place Among New York Musicians

    Series: American Musicspheres;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 16 June 2024

    • ISBN 9780197682777
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages208 pages
    • Size 235x156 mm
    • Weight 940 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 13 music examples, 2 photos, 2 maps
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    Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create a mobile and diverse notion of jazz while inadvertently contributing to processes of gentrification and institutionalization. Jazz Migrations assesses the impact of contemporary transnational migration on New York jazz, examining its effects on educational institutions, club scenes, and jam sessions. It urges the reader to reconsider the meaning of genre boundaries, senses of belonging, and ethnic identity in American music.

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    Since the 1990s, migrant musicians have become increasingly prominent in New York City's jazz scene. Challenging norms about who can be a jazz musician and what immigrant music should sound like, these musicians create mobile and diverse notions of jazz while inadvertently contributing to processes of gentrification and cultural institutionalization. In Jazz Migrations, author Ofer Gazit discusses the impact of contemporary transnational migration on New York jazz, examining its effects on educational institutions, club scenes, and jam sessions.

    Drawing on four years of musical participation in the scene, as well as interviews with musicians, audience members, venue owners, industry professionals, and institutional actors, Gazit transports readers from music schools in Japan, Israel, and India to rehearsals and private lessons in American jazz programs, and to New York's immigrant jazz hangouts: an immigrant-owned music school in the Bronx; a weekly jam session in a Haitian bar in central Brooklyn; a Colombian-owned jazz room in Jackson Heights, Queens; and a members-only club in Manhattan. Along the way, he introduces the improvisatory practices of a cast of well-known and aspiring musicians: a South Indian guitarist's visions of John Coltrane and Carnatic music; a Chilean saxophonist's intimate dialogue with the sound of Sonny Rollins; an Israeli clarinetist finding a home in Brazilian Choro and in Louis Armstrong's legacy; and a multiple Grammy-nominated Cuban drummer from the Bronx. Jazz Migrations concludes with a call for a collective reconsideration of the meaning of genre boundaries, senses of belonging, and ethnic identity in American music.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgments
    About the Companion Website
    Introduction: A Moving Scene
    1. The Loop
    2. Jam Session
    3. The Scene
    4. History
    5. Home
    6. The Village
    Conclusion: Places that Move
    Notes
    References
    Selected Discography
    Interviews and Conversations
    For Further Listening
    Index

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