Jazz Migrations

Author : Ofer Gazit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197682777

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Jazz Migrations by Ofer Gazit Pdf

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.

Author : Rashida K. Braggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520279353

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Jazz Diasporas by Rashida K. Braggs Pdf

"At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians--and African American artists based in Europe like writer and social critic James Baldwin--adopted a variety of strategies to cope with the cultural and social assumptions that greeted them throughout their careers in Paris, particularly in light of the cultural struggles over race and identity that gripped France as colonial conflicts like the Algerian War escalated. Through case studies of prominent musicians and thoughtful analysis of personal interviews, music, film, and literature, Rashida K. Braggs investigates the impact of this post-war musical migration. Examining a number of players in the jazz scene, including Sidney Bechet, Inez Cavanaugh, and Kenny Clarke, Braggs identifies how they performed both as musicians and as African Americans. The collaborations that they and other African Americans created with French musicians and critics complicated racial and cultural understandings of who could play and represent "authentic" jazz. Their role in French society challenged their American identity and illusions of France as a racial safe haven. In this post-war era of collapsing nations and empires, African American jazz players and their French counterparts destabilized set notions of identity. Sliding in and out of black and white and American and French identities, they created collaborative spaces for mobile and mobilized musical identities, what Braggs terms 'jazz diasporas.'"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jason Toynbee,Byron Dueck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136900945

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Migrating Music by Jason Toynbee,Byron Dueck Pdf

Migrants bring music from the homeland to the metropolis. But music also migrates via the media: 'world' music, hip hop, bossa nova ... With case studies from across the world this ground-breaking collection shows how migrating music is key to the construction of a still-emerging, global cosmopolitan imagination.

Author : Steven A. Reich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610696661

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The Great Black Migration by Steven A. Reich Pdf

Treating broad themes as well as specific topics, this guide to the Great Black Migration will introduce high school students to a touchstone critical to shaping the history of African Americans in the United States. The movement of Southern blacks to the urban North and West over the course of the 20th century had a profound impact on black life, affecting everything from politics and labor to literature and the popular arts. This encyclopedia provides readers and researchers with a comprehensive reference work on this central topic of African American history, exploring the breadth of the black migration experience from its origins in the agricultural economy of the post–Civil War South to the return migration of the late 20th century. Entries cover such topics as the destinations that attracted black migrants, the impact of the Great Migration on black religion, the relationship between migration and black politics, and the patterns of discrimination and racial violence migrants encountered. Unlike more general reference works on African American history, each entry in the encyclopedia situates its subject within the context of black migration and articulates connections between the subject of the entry and the overall history of the migration.

Author : Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781604136807

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The Great Black Migrations by Liz Sonneborn Pdf

History of the mass migration of African Americans from the South to the North during the twentieth century.

Author : Bernadette Pruitt
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603449489

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The Other Great Migration by Bernadette Pruitt Pdf

The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of black activism and resistance to racism. Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted white families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners. Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.

Author : Elke Weesjes,Matthew Worley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040005507

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Music, Subcultures and Migration by Elke Weesjes,Matthew Worley Pdf

This edited volume concentrates on the period from the 1940s to the present, exploring how popular music forms such as blues, disco, reggae, hip hop, grime, metal and punk evolved and transformed as they traversed time and space. Within this framework, the collection traces how music and subcultures travel through, to and from democracies, autocracies and anocracies. The chosen approach is multidisciplinary and deliberately diverse. Using both archival sources and oral testimony from a wide variety of musicians, promoters, critics and members of the audience, contributors from a range of academic disciplines explore music and subcultural forms in countries across Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and Africa. They investigate how far the meaning of music and associated subcultures change as they move from one context to another and consider whether they transcend or blur parameters of class, race, gender and sexuality.

Author : Wolfgang Gratzer,Nils Grosch,Ulrike Präger,Susanne Scheiblhofer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000955026

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The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration by Wolfgang Gratzer,Nils Grosch,Ulrike Präger,Susanne Scheiblhofer Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Music and Migration: Theories and Methodologies is a progressive, transdisciplinary paradigm-shifting core text for music and migration studies. Conceptualized as a comprehensive methodological and theoretical guide, it foregrounds the mobile potentials of music and presents key arguments about why musical expressions matter in the discussion of migration politics. 24 international specialists in music and migration set methodological and theoretical standards for transdisciplinary collaborations in the field of migration studies, discussing 41 keywords, such as mobility, community, research ethics, human rights, and critical whiteness in the context of music and migration. The authors then apply these terms to 16 chapters, which deal with ethnomusicological, musicological, sociological, anthropological, geographical, pedagogical, political, economic, and media-related methodologies and theories which reflect and contest current discourses of migration. In their interdisciplinary focus, these chapters advance interrelations between music and migration as enabling factors for socio-cultural studies. Furthermore, the authors tackle crucial questions of agency, equality, and equity as well as the responsibilities and expectations of writers and artists when researching migration phenomena as innate human experience. As a result, this handbook provides scholars and students alike with relevant and applicable methodological and theoretical tools in addition to an extensive literature and research review for further research.

Author : Eric Einhorn,Sherrill Harbison,Markus Huss
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299334802

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Migration and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia by Eric Einhorn,Sherrill Harbison,Markus Huss Pdf

Scandinavian societies have historically, and problematically, been understood as homogenous, when in fact they have a long history of ethnic and cultural pluralism due to colonialism and territorial conquest. Amid global tensions around border security and refugee crises, these powerful conversations with nineteen scholars about the past, present, and future of a region in transition capture the current cultural moment.

Author : Desirée J. Garcia
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813574271

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The Migration of Musical Film by Desirée J. Garcia Pdf

Movie musicals are among the most quintessentially American art forms, often celebrating mobility, self-expression, and the pursuit of one’s dreams. But like America itself, the Hollywood musical draws from many distinct ethnic traditions. In this illuminating new study, Desirée J. Garcia examines the lesser-known folk musicals from early African American, Yiddish, and Mexican filmmakers, revealing how these were essential ingredients in the melting pot of the Hollywood musical. The Migration of Musical Film shows how the folk musical was rooted in the challenges faced by immigrants and migrants who had to adapt to new environments, balancing American individualism with family values and cultural traditions. Uncovering fresh material from film industry archives, Garcia considers how folk musicals were initially marginal productions, designed to appeal to specific minority audiences, and yet introduced themes that were gradually assimilated into the Hollywood mainstream. No other book offers a comparative historical study of the folk musical, from the first sound films in the 1920s to the genre’s resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s. Using an illustrative rather than comprehensive approach, Garcia focuses on significant moments in the sub-genre and rarely studied films such as Allá en el Rancho Grande along with familiar favorites that drew inspiration from earlier folk musicals—everything from The Wizard of Oz to Zoot Suit. If you think of movie musicals simply as escapist mainstream entertainment, The Migration of Musical Film is sure to leave you singing a different tune.

Author : Brigid Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226818016

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Musical Migration and Imperial New York by Brigid Cohen Pdf

"Through archival work and storytelling synthesis, Music Migration and Imperial New York revises, subverts, and supplements many inherited narratives about experimental music and arts in postwar New York into a sweeping new whole. From the urban street-level via music clubs and arts institutions to the world-making routes of global migration and exchange, this book seeks to redraw the geographies of experimental art and so to reveal the imperial dynamics, as well as profoundly racialized and gendered power relations, that shaped and continue to shape the discourses and practices of modern music in the United States. Beginning with the material conditions of power that structured the cityscape of New York in the early Cold War years (ca. 1957 to 1963), Brigid Cohen's book encompasses a considerably wider range of people and practices than is usual in studies of the music of this period. It looks at a range of artistic practices (concert music, electronic music, jazz, performance art) and actors (Varèse, Mingus, Yoko Ono, and Fluxus founder George Maciunas) as they experimented with new modes of creativity"--

Author : Alexei Eremine,, Ana Fernandes Ngom,Bart Vanspauwen,Carla Soares Barbosa,Carlos Martins,Dan Lundberg,Dieter Christensen,Godelieve Meersschaert,Gustavo Roriz,Isabel Elvas,J.A. Fernandes Dias,Jean-Michel Lafleur, João Jorge,John Baily,Jorge Castro Ribeiro, Jorge de La Barre,Jorge Murteira,Júlio Leitão,Lídia Fernandes,Luisiane Ramalho,Mafalda Silva Rego,Marcello Sorce-Keller,Marco Martiniello,Maria da Luz Fragoso Costa,Maria de São José Côrte-Real,Mark Naison,Miguel Magalhães,Paula Nascimento,Sílvia Martinez,Susana Sardo,Ursula Hemetek
Publisher : ACIDI, I.P.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Music and Migration by Alexei Eremine,, Ana Fernandes Ngom,Bart Vanspauwen,Carla Soares Barbosa,Carlos Martins,Dan Lundberg,Dieter Christensen,Godelieve Meersschaert,Gustavo Roriz,Isabel Elvas,J.A. Fernandes Dias,Jean-Michel Lafleur, João Jorge,John Baily,Jorge Castro Ribeiro, Jorge de La Barre,Jorge Murteira,Júlio Leitão,Lídia Fernandes,Luisiane Ramalho,Mafalda Silva Rego,Marcello Sorce-Keller,Marco Martiniello,Maria da Luz Fragoso Costa,Maria de São José Côrte-Real,Mark Naison,Miguel Magalhães,Paula Nascimento,Sílvia Martinez,Susana Sardo,Ursula Hemetek Pdf

Following the format of the journal, the texts, in three parts, testify musical experience in different representations, from elementary school practices to music festivals and resident chamber music, mentioning categories accepted in the Portuguese society, among others, referring to the popular, folk/world and art music.

Author : Lauren Braun-Strumfels,Maddalena Marinari,Daniele Fiorentino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110983074

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Managing Migration in Italy and the United States by Lauren Braun-Strumfels,Maddalena Marinari,Daniele Fiorentino Pdf

Managing Migration in Italy and the United States shows how the development of gatekeeping in the United States and Italy laid the groundwork for immigration restriction worldwide at the turn of the twentieth century. The volume brings together European and American scholars, many for the first time, effectively crossing national and disciplinary boundaries. Using archives on both sides of the Atlantic, the authors explore the rise of immigration restriction and the attendant growth of the bureaucracy to regulate migration through the lens of migration studies, transnational history, and diplomatic and international history. The essays contribute to recent scholarship on the global repercussions of immigration restriction and the complex web of interactions created by limits on mobility. Managing Migration brings to light Italy’s important role in the establishment of international border controls promoted by the United States and expands the chronology of restriction from its origins to the present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Jazz
ISBN : UOM:39015057463039

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Jazz Improv by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rebecca Ferguson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9052011672

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Rewriting Black Identities by Rebecca Ferguson Pdf

Topics include: 'Complexity and Continuity'; 'Transition, Exclusion and Illusion'; 'The Use of an Eye'; 'Fragmentation and Reconstruction'; 'Shifting Foundations'; 'Living History'; and more.