The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 19 May 2022
- ISBN 9780367677794
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages198 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 Tables, black & white 726
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Short description:
Drawing on an extensive, four-year field research project, including ethnographic observations and 27 in-depth interviews, this book is the first to explore the hidden diasporic narrative(s) of Hungarian jazz through the system of historically formed cultural distinctions.
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In Hungary, jazz was at the forefront of heated debates sparked by the racialised tensions between national music traditions and newly emerging forms of popular culture that challenged the prevailing status quo within the cultural hierarchies of different historical eras. Drawing on an extensive, four-year field research project, including ethnographic observations and 29 in-depth interviews, this book is the first to explore the hidden diasporic narrative(s) of Hungarian jazz through the system of historically formed distinctions linked to the social practices of assimilated Jews and Romani musicians. The chapters illustrate how different concepts of authenticity and conflicting definitions of jazz as the "sound of Western modernity" have resulted in a unique hierarchical setting. The book's account of the fundamental opposition between US-centric mainstream jazz (bebop) and Bart
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Introduction
Chapter 1: On the crossroads of cultural sociology and jazz studies
Chapter 2: The ?othering effect? of jazz: cultural and racial hierarchies in Hungary?s jazz age
Chapter 3: Polarisation, acceptance and in-betweenness: Jazz in state socialist Hungary
Chapter 4: Struggles that matter: The social constructions of bebop and free jazz
Chapter 5: Othering whiteness: Permanence and change in Romani musicians? jazz habitus
Conclusion: Counter-discourses, jazz diasporas and the reconfiguration of the canon
Index
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