Why Jazz? South Africa 2019
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685627 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Muller (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, corresponding author), Carol A Muller |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 115-127 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_01747 |
| OpenAlex | W2925119666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
I consider the current state of jazz in South Africa in response to the formation of the nation-state in the 1990s. I argue that while there is a recurring sense of the precarity of jazz in South Africa as measured by the short lives of jazz venues, there is nevertheless a vibrant jazz culture in which musicians are using their own studios to experiment with new ways of being South African through the freedom of association of people and styles forming a music that sounds both local and comfortable in its sense of place in the global community. This essay uses the words of several South African musicians and concludes by situating the artistic process of South African artist William Kentridge in parallel to jazz improvisation
Aesthetics · Art · Improvisation · Jazz · Sociology · State (computer science · Studio · Visual arts · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Music History and Culture · Musicology and Musical Analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |