Ideals, Aesthetics, and Practices of Professionalization in the Tokyo Jazz Scene
| dc.contributor.advisor | Witzleben, J. Lawrence | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Scally, William Donawerth | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Music | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-22T06:22:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-22T06:22:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In the early twenty-first century, jazz has a history in Japan of approximately 100 years. In contemporary Tokyo, Japanese musicians demonstrate their right to access jazz performance through a variety of musical and extra-musical techniques. Those accepted as fully professional and authentic artists, or puro, gain a special status among their peers, setting them apart from their amateur and part-time counterparts. Drawing on three months of participant-observation in the Tokyo jazz scene, I examine this status of puro, its variable definition, the techniques used by musicians to establish themselves as credible jazz performers, and some obstacles to achieving this status. I claim two things: first, aspiring puro musicians establish themselves within a jazz tradition through musical references to African American identity and a rhetoric of jazz as universal music. Second, I claim that universalism as a core aesthetic creates additional obstacles to puro status for certain musicians in the Tokyo scene. | en_US |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/M2BF6H | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18436 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject.pqcontrolled | Music | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Ethnomusicology | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Japan | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Jazz | en_US |
| dc.subject.pquncontrolled | Tokyo | en_US |
| dc.title | Ideals, Aesthetics, and Practices of Professionalization in the Tokyo Jazz Scene | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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