Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Further thoughts, and a maniFESTo, on jazz (festivals) and the decolonization of music
View through CrossRef
This short critical-creative piece originates in an EU-funded project on heritage in improvised music festivals (CHIME). It is a supplement to other recently published research by the author exploring the relation between the touristic offer of certain British jazz festivals and their lack of engagement with the significance of their own civic setting and heritage, focused on festivals held in Georgian or Regency locations (i.e., ones with strong links to the transatlantic slave trade). It explores and metaphorizes the double bass and its transatlantic resonances. It concludes with a small provocation in the form of a manifesto, aimed primarily at jazz festival directors.
Title: Further thoughts, and a maniFESTo, on jazz (festivals) and the decolonization of music
Description:
This short critical-creative piece originates in an EU-funded project on heritage in improvised music festivals (CHIME).
It is a supplement to other recently published research by the author exploring the relation between the touristic offer of certain British jazz festivals and their lack of engagement with the significance of their own civic setting and heritage, focused on festivals held in Georgian or Regency locations (i.
e.
, ones with strong links to the transatlantic slave trade).
It explores and metaphorizes the double bass and its transatlantic resonances.
It concludes with a small provocation in the form of a manifesto, aimed primarily at jazz festival directors.
Related Results
Staging jazz pasts within commercial European jazz festivals: The case of the North Sea Jazz Festival
Staging jazz pasts within commercial European jazz festivals: The case of the North Sea Jazz Festival
This article examines the North Sea Jazz Festival in order to highlight the growing influence of both ‘convergence culture’ (Jenkins) and prevailing jazz mythologies upon the recep...
‘A tale of five festivals’
‘A tale of five festivals’
This paper considers the cultural intermediary function of Australian jazz festivals. It presents a detailed analysis of programming patterns across five Australian Jazz music fest...
Cross-cultural Encounters in Urban Festivals: Between Liberation and Domination
Cross-cultural Encounters in Urban Festivals: Between Liberation and Domination
This paper is part of a wider research project on Paradoxical Spaces: Encountering the Other in Public Space that explores how cultural difference is practiced and negotiated in di...
Relationships among Vocal Jazz Improvisation Achievement, Jazz Theory Knowledge, Imitative Ability, Musical Experience, Creativity, and Gender
Relationships among Vocal Jazz Improvisation Achievement, Jazz Theory Knowledge, Imitative Ability, Musical Experience, Creativity, and Gender
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships among various aspects of vocal jazz improvisation achievement and several predictor variables. Subjects included 101 coll...
Jazz as a Black American Art Form: Definitions of the Jazz Preservation Act
Jazz as a Black American Art Form: Definitions of the Jazz Preservation Act
Jazz music and culture have experienced a surge in popularity after the passage of the Jazz Preservation Act (JPA) in 1987. This resolution defined jazz as a black American art for...
Jazz History in Thailand: From Profession to Music Education
Jazz History in Thailand: From Profession to Music Education
This qualitative research has collected exhaustive data on topics ranging from the history of jazz in Thailand to the genre entering the realm of music education. Cassettes, CDs, g...
Gender politics, UK jazz festivals and COVID-19
Gender politics, UK jazz festivals and COVID-19
Music festivals offer a valuable glimpse into the state of the current musical landscape. Through them we can follow the career trajectories of particular artists, spot genre trend...
Festa do Jazz
Festa do Jazz
Since 2003, each year for three days, the cultural heart of Lisbon becomes a unique space, adopted and shaped by a diverse jazz ecology. Festa do Jazz is a jazz festival which show...