Jazz Performance as Ritualized Activity
Jazz Performance as Ritualized Activity
This chapter argues that discourses on race and culture as well as history and memory work with a blues aesthetic to frame jazz performance as a spiritually oriented ritualized activity. Whether one sees ritual as conservative or performative, common threads regarding its role in individual and social transformation and its power to organize experience still emerge in the literature, threads that might have value for research on music and musicians.
Keywords: race, culture, memory, blues aesthetic, jazz music, ritual
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