Jazz, genre distinction and political economy in the post-digital popular music landscape

后数字流行音乐格局中的爵士乐、流派区分和政治经济

• 批准号: 2285454
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2285454
• 关键词: Jazz; genre; distinction; political; economy

This project will explore how digital technologies have altered the delineation of music in genre terms at the points of production, circulation, and consumption, and how do these changes manifest in the contemporary jazz field. Which cultural mediators and stakeholders shape generic discourse within contemporary jazz? Who benefits, and at whose expense, from the changing power dynamics in the post-digital landscape? What does the current popularity of certain elements of the London jazz scene tell us about these shifts? What capacity do musicians have to control the ways in which their music is defined, discussed and distributed in the post-digital industry environment? What impact does the growing role of corporate cultural sponsorship have upon musicians' attachment to generic identities? Why has an economic model of digital music predicated on data analysis and categorisation emerged alongside a growing embrace of post-generic discourse and indexical fluidity amongst jazz musicians and audiences?The research will focus upon the contemporary London jazz scene as a case study. This will draw in part from qualitative data drawn from semi-structured interviews with figures who occupy a range of positions in the field of London jazz. In addition to musicians, interviews with radio hosts, journalists, DJs, venue owners, and audience members will be conducted. Crucially, the research will address a broad constellation of stakeholders in London jazz, drawing on those who are seen as occupying the margins of the field alongside those who currently command wider attention. Given the central role played by new digital music technologies, interviews with employees in these industries will also be carried out. The candidates intends to perform this research via the Internet, drawing on extant methodologies of internet mediated research.

该项目将探讨数字技术如何在生产、流通和消费方面改变音乐流派的界定，以及这些变化如何在当代爵士乐领域体现。哪些文化调解者和利益相关者塑造了当代爵士乐中的通用话语？后数字时代不断变化的权力动态谁会受益，谁会付出代价？目前伦敦爵士乐界某些元素的流行向我们透露了哪些关于这些转变的信息？音乐家有什么能力来控制他们的音乐在后数字产业环境中被定义、讨论和传播的方式？企业文化赞助的作用日益增强对音乐家对通用身份的依恋有何影响？为什么以数据分析和分类为基础的数字音乐经济模型会随着爵士乐音乐家和观众对后通用话语和索引流动性的日益接受而出现？该研究将重点关注当代伦敦爵士乐场景作为案例研究。这将部分来自对伦敦爵士乐领域担任各种职位的人物进行半结构化访谈的定性数据。除了音乐家之外，还将对电台主持人、记者、DJ、场地所有者和观众进行采访。至关重要的是，这项研究将针对伦敦爵士乐的广泛利益相关者群体，吸引那些被视为占据该领域边缘的人以及目前受到更广泛关注的人。鉴于新的数字音乐技术所发挥的核心作用，还将对这些行业的员工进行采访。候选人打算利用现有的互联网媒介研究方法，通过互联网进行这项研究。