Ádám Havas

The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000590630
• Artikelnr.: 63643029

Autorenporträt

Ádám Havas is a Sociologist and jazz researcher based in Budapest, Hungary.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

What a complex, brilliant little book! It's best to read it as
- a tour de force in the ethnography of performing arts, putting the field of jazz in Hungary on the map of the social sciences world-wide,
- a courageous renewal of the Bourdieusian dialect of sociology, from the sidelines of European bourgeois modernity,
- an ethnography of the place of 'race' and identity as they appear in the cosmos of the creative arts, and dance in the double bind of Dirty Whiteness and (dis)privilege,
- an insider-outsider take on the whirl of radically open-ended art,
- an account of creative lives that vibrate between bebop inspirations and the "burden of free idioms", negotiating the all-important informal scripts played in the "Roma" and "assimilated Jewish" scenes, and
- a sparkling allegory for semiperipheral east-central Europe, a tiny universe of its own, forever in search of a sound-finding a voice that it can regard as its own.

József Böröcz, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA