1st Edition
Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan A Passionate Search for Self-Expression
By Marie Buscatto
Copyright 2025
162 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art—not to “japanize” jazz, but to assert one’s creativity, passion, and capacity for self-expression—establishing it as an art form with its own sense of musicality and cultural, social, and economic concerns. This ethnographic survey... Read more
Introduction
1. Jazz Clubs at the Heart of Japanese Jazz Making
2: A Passionate Choice for Jazz: Escaping One’s Social Destiny
3. Two Paths towards Self-expression
4. The Paradoxical Feminization of Japanese Jazz
Conclusion
Biography
Marie Buscatto is Full Professor in Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in France.
