Description
Book Synopsis
Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally.
An impressive number of Israeli jazz performers have received widespread exposure and worldwide acclaim, creating music that melds aspects of American jazz with an array of Israeli, Jewish and Middle Eastern influences and other non-Western musical traditions. While each musician is developing their own approach to musical transculturation, common threads connect them all. Unraveling and analyzing these entangled sounds and related discourses lies at the center of this study. This book provides broad insight into the nature, role and politics of transcultural music making in contemporary jazz practice. Focusing on a particular group of Israeli musicians to enhance knowledge of modern Israeli society, culture, discourses and practices, the research and analyses presented in this book are based on extensive fieldwork in multiple sites in the United States and Israel, and interviews with musicians, educators, journalists, producers and scholars.
Transcultural Jazz is an engaging read for students and scholars from diverse fields such as: jazz studies, ethnomusicology, Jewish studies, Israel studies and transnational studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. "Israeli Jazz": History and Overview 3. "Israeli Jazz": Blending Blends and Threads of Influence 4. The Sand and the Sea: Transcultural Jazz Arrangements of Israeli and Jewish Repertoirs 5. Falafel Jazz? The Politics of Genre and Culture 6. Profiles of Multi-local Musicians: Amos Hoffman, Anat Cohen and Omer Klein 7. Conclusion
