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Jazz between Popular and High Art
Rašeljka KRNIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0002-2370-433X
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
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At the very beginning of his paper titled "Is Jazz Popular
Music?" Simon Frith claims that it is very easy to give an
answer to that question. He simply and clearly says "Yes! End
of discussion". However, the fact that there has been no
consensus concerning that question for a long time, neither
among theorists nor among musicians and audiences,
indicates that the answer to that question isn’t that simple
and emphasizes the complexity of jazz as a cultural and
musical phenomenon created at the beginning of the 20th
century. Considering, in a way, the paradoxical nature of jazz
and its specific historical development, the fact that "popular
music studies" and "jazz studies" are completely different
scientific disciplines seems symptomatic. Although in its
beginnings, in the 1920s and 1930s, in one of its variants,
jazz indubitably had the character of popular music, some
theorists believe that this side of it has been completely
neglected unfairly. Jazz music maintains a minority status in
popular music research. On the other hand, jazz is often
defined as "American classical music" rather than as massmediated
popular music, and should as such be treated as
serious high art. The advocates of this position believe that
jazz music isn’t neglected within "popular music studies", but
that it doesn’t even belong there. Whether we view the
history of jazz music in an evolutionary way, as a genre
progressing from folk form to commercial entertainment to
an art, or as an ever-changing dialectic relationship between
the mainstream and the avant-garde, jazz still remains
problematic to define.
Ključne riječi
jazz; popular music; high art; popular culture; high culture; jazz critique
Hrčak ID:
62741
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Datum izdavanja:
23.12.2010.
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