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Jews and Jazz - Improvising Ethnicity (Paperback)
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Jews and Jazz - Improvising Ethnicity (Paperback)
Series: Transnational Studies in Jazz
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Jews and Jazz: Improvising Ethnicity explores the meaning of Jewish
involvement in the world of American jazz. It focuses on the ways
prominent jazz musicians like Stan Getz, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw,
Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Michael Brecker, and Red Rodney have
engaged with jazz in order to explore and construct ethnic
identities. The author looks at Jewish identity through jazz in the
context of the surrounding American culture, believing that
American Jews have used jazz to construct three kinds of
identities: to become more American, to emphasize their minority
outsider status, and to become more Jewish. From the beginning,
Jewish musicians have used jazz for all three of these purposes,
but the emphasis has shifted over time. In the 1920s and 1930s,
when Jews were seen as foreign, Jews used jazz to make a more
inclusive America, for themselves and for blacks, establishing
their American identity. Beginning in the 1940s, as Jews became
more accepted into the mainstream, they used jazz to
"re-minoritize" and avoid over-assimilation through identification
with African Americans. Finally, starting in the 1960s as ethnic
assertion became more predominant in America, Jews have used jazz
to explore and advance their identities as Jews in a multicultural
society.
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