Jazz som etnomusikologisk forskningsfelt

Abstract

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In this article the focus falls specifically on new tendencies in the field of
jazz research. This is an area of study that has undergone extensive changes with
respect to a number of overarching questions that, in broad terms, have ranged
from the focus on jazz as a stylistic work to that of intrinsic complexity and
cultural significance. In the case of the latter, the issue of expression in jazz
is interpreted within a cultural context. By suggesting such new tendencies in
jazz we inevitably enter the ethnomusicological research field, which is
characterized by the underlying focus on music within and as part of culture, and,
in addition, as an interdisciplinary approach to the field where theories and
methods are extracted from the bordering disciplines of history, religious
studies, cultural studies, social anthropology, sociology, media studies, as part
of an analytical objective.
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