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Book SynopsisThere are over a million jazz recordings, but only a few hundred tunes have been recorded repeatedly. Why did a minority of songs become jazz standards? Why do some songs--and not others--get rerecorded by many musicians? Shaping Jazz answers this question and more, exploring the underappreciated yet crucial roles played by initial production and m
Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2014 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of Management "The thesis of this multilayered, impressive scholarly study is that jazz is shaped by the processing of the recorded product from its geographical region, its reception and active participant audience, social structure, and its marketing and diffusion... The multiple graphs and charts serve as important sources for understanding the global aspects and diffusion of this innovative musical form."--Choice "One of the most enjoyable things about this book is that it demonstrates the importance and historically contingent nature of social categories... Other people who study product and organizational categories would do well to emulate his concern for concrete phenomena... His sensitivity to time and place are critical to the insights he draws from his research, insights that have wide applicability outside the early jazz recording industry."--Heather A. Haveman, Administrative Science Quarterly "The entire book rewards the reading, both for what it tells us substantively about a major art form and what it tells us theoretically about processes of legitimation, diffusion, and canonization."--Gabriel Rossman, American Journal of Sociology "The author should be commended on the depth and scope of the work... In summary, Phillips sheds considerable light on the formation of jazz, its dissemination, its institutions, musicians and geography, and does so with a variety of analysis tools and unique historical data."--Journal of Economic Literature
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction - Sociological Congruence and the Shaping of Recorded Jazz 1 Chapter 1 The Puzzle of Geographical Disconnectedness 13 Chapter 2 Further Exploring the Salience of Geography 40 Chapter 3 Sociological Congruence and the Puzzle of Early German Jazz 53 Chapter 4 Sociological Congruence and Record Company Comparative Advantage 77 Chapter 5 The Sociological Congruence of Record Company Deception 103 Chapter 6 The Sociological Congruence of Identity Sequences and Adoption Narratives 120 Chapter 7 Pulling It Together and Stretching It Beyond 137 Appendix 159 Notes 169 References 187 Index 203
