What is Black British Jazz? Routes, Ownership, Performance
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Grant Holder:
Mark Doffman
The ‘Black British jazz’ project (BBJ) explores the emergence of a distinct tradition within British music. BBJ melds reggae, hiphop, African music and US jazz into a rich, and constantly developing set of sounds. In documenting this musical hybrid, the project touches on important issues for the study of music – the transmission of cultural values, the social context of musical forms, and frameworks of ownership that impact on musical communities.
The project traces the historical and geographical routes along which BBJ has developed and examines the role of memory and cultural transmission in the emergence of new musical forms. It also investigates ownership of BBJ in relation to entrepreneurship, creativity and cultural policy and analyses aesthetics, embodied practice and participation in BBJ performance.
In terms of audience the project reaches out beyond academia to a broad constituency through film, a radio series/podcast, an end-of- project concert and more.
| Project start date: 2009-01 | Project end date: 2011-06 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
Country/region(s):
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Audio mixing | Practice-led research |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Disk publishing | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Content analysis | Data analysis |
| Moving image capture | Data capture |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| Sound analysis | Data analysis |
| Sound editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Textual interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Video editing | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Video-based interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Statistical analysis | Data analysis |
| sound | Content types |
| music | Discipline |
| moving image | Content types |
| text | Content types |
| media | Discipline |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Centre for Research into Economic and Social Change (Open University, University of Manchester)
Content types created:
Moving Image, Sound, Still Image/Graphics, Text
Software tools used:
ProTools, Praat, MS Word, MS Access, Observer XT, MS EXCEL, MS POWERPOINT, AVID MEDIA COMPOSER
Source material used:
Project data has been collected from the following sources:
1. Performances (including concerts, rehearsals, jam sessions and workshops)
2. Archive materials ( Jazz Services, National Jazz Archive)
3. Interviews
Digital resource created:
Project website at http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/blackbritishjazz/ More information on the digital resources created through this project will follow in due course.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Publications:
Conference Papers:
Toynbee, Jason. 2009. What is Black British Jazz? Paper presented at The Institute of Historical Research (Music in Britain seminar series)March 9 in London.
Toynbee, Jason. 2009. What is Black British Jazz? Paper presented at the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, No. XXV, September at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Dueck, Byron. 2009. Paper presented at the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, No.XXV, September at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Doffman, Mark. 2009. Temporal powers. Paper presented at the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, No. XXV, September at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Doffman, Mark. 2010. Codes and codas: jazz musicians'ending of a standard in a jam session. Paper presented at Empirical Musicology II, April at University of Leeds, UK.
Journal articles
Magazine Articles
Doffman, Mark. 2010. Jazz virtue: why play jazz in a recession? Yamaha Education Supplement, May.
Toynbee, Jason. 2009. What is Black British Jazz? Paper presented at The Institute of Historical Research (Music in Britain seminar series)March 9 in London.
Toynbee, Jason. 2009. What is Black British Jazz? Paper presented at the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, No. XXV, September at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Dueck, Byron. 2009. Paper presented at the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, No.XXV, September at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Doffman, Mark. 2009. Temporal powers. Paper presented at the European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, No. XXV, September at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Doffman, Mark. 2010. Codes and codas: jazz musicians'ending of a standard in a jam session. Paper presented at Empirical Musicology II, April at University of Leeds, UK.
Journal articles
Magazine Articles
Doffman, Mark. 2010. Jazz virtue: why play jazz in a recession? Yamaha Education Supplement, May.
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
|---|
| The Open University |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Dune Music |
| Jazz Services |
| Center for Black Music Research |
| British Library Sound Archive |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Jason Toynbee, Dr Mark Banks, Dr Catherine Tackley, Dr Byron Dueck, Dr Mark Doffman |
|---|---|
| Other staff: | Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
| External expertise: |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Mark Doffman |
| Title | What is Black British Jazz? Routes, Ownership, Performance |
| Record created | 2010-06-16 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-21 12:57 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3630 |
| Citation of record | Mark Doffman: What is Black British Jazz? Routes, Ownership, Performance. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3630> created: 2010-06-16, last updated 2010-06-21 12:57 |