Jazz: Resistance to the Diffusion of a Culture-Pattern

Berger, Morroe

doi:10.2307/2714928

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“…Surprisingly, given the well-documented connection between jazz and African-American culture and performers (e.g. Berger, 1947;Collier, 1988Collier, , 1993Hennessey, 1994;Kenney, 1993;Lax, 1974;Leonard, 1970;Ogren, 1989;Peretti, 1992;Schuller, 1968), the music was seldom linked in the media to the major changes in race relations taking place during the 1920s. (Explicit references to racial boundaries appeared in 5.8% of the paragraphs.)…”

Section: Jazz and Racementioning

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Boundaries and Early Jazz: Defining a New Music

Appelrouth

2010

Cultural Sociology

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The diffusion of jazz into the musical mainstream during the 1920s served as a site for the struggle to define ongoing changes both in the arts and in the broader society. I analyze the discursive themes that framed the contention over the music by connecting the notion of boundary-work to fields of cultural production. In doing so, I demonstrate that the content of boundary-work is shaped by the field in which a speaker is positioned. ‘High’ and popular artists, civic and political leaders, and general cultural critics defined differently the alleged impact of jazz. These differences in content fueled the dynamism of the contention by giving expression to the different interests at stake, interests that reflect the specific authority to name the truth generated by a given field.

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Section: Jazz and Racementioning

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Boundaries and Early Jazz: Defining a New Music

Appelrouth

2010

Cultural Sociology

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“…One is the view that certain popular music constitutes a social problem, in that it is, in certain ways, socially injurious (Berger 1947;Biafra 1987;Firth 1981Firth ,1986Leonard 1962;Chappie and Garofalo 1977;and Denisoff 1975). In a general sense, reggae can be seen to have contributed to social ferment and even division, as have jazz, rock-and-roll, and (currently) rap music in their formative years.…”

Section: Popular Music As a Social Problemmentioning

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Research Note: Popular Music and Gender in Jamaica

Anderson¹,

Langley²

1992

ARP

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Recent discussions about Jamaica’s popular music — reggae — have focused on the kinds of images of women that have been created by reggae artists, especially those who focus on “dance hall” reggae. Content analysis is used here to examine the lyrics of thirty five songs created and performed between the mid-1960s and the end of the 1980s in an attempt to determine whether the images of women in reggae lyrics are largely negative and may contribute to norms that foster discrimination against women.

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“…Morroe Berger, in 1947, attacked the problem of the spread of jazz in the United States in terms of diffusion and status differentials. The problem advanced was to examine the implications, for the diffusion of jazz, of the fact that the Negroes, with whom jazz is correctly associated, are a low-status group in the United States.…”

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Music in American Culture

Merriam¹

1955

American Anthropologist

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Jazz: Resistance to the Diffusion of a Culture-Pattern

Cited by 21 publications

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Boundaries and Early Jazz: Defining a New Music

Boundaries and Early Jazz: Defining a New Music

Research Note: Popular Music and Gender in Jamaica

Music in American Culture

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