The Intersection of Jewishness and Competing Identities in the Contemporary New York Jazz Scene

当代纽约爵士乐界中犹太人身份与竞争身份的交集

• 批准号: 2437311
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2437311
• 关键词: Intersection; Jewishness; Competing; Identities; Contemporary

This project, building on my MRes on Jewish identity in the British jazz scene as a pilot study, investigates the roles that Jewish identity plays in the careers of musicians currently working in and around the New York jazz community. The central aim of this project is to examine the diverse, multicultural contemporary (defined here as musicians who are alive and working today) jazz community of New York in search of the ways in which Jewish musicians, and Jewishness, interact with the wider scene. This will identify the role of Jewish eclecticism in an increasingly identitarian jazz landscape. Topics explored as part of this research will include the significance of klezmer revivals; how musicians perform Jewishness, looking at John Zorn's Radical Jewish Culture movement; Uri Caine and Béla Fleck's mediation between high and low art through jazz-art music fusion. It will also confront the intersection of Jewish and African American identities, both of which are inextricably linked to the cultural history of New York and its jazz scene. In particular, I will investigate how the perception of those communities as competing for recognition of victimhood is negotiated through jazz and through the individual experiences of Black-Jewish musicians like Joshua Redman. I will also tackle head-on how modern antisemitism, political discourse and the Israel/Palestine debate impacts Jewish engagement with New York jazz and mainstream Jewish communities, particularly given the recent rise in anti-Jewish hate crimes in the city, debates around left-antisemitism and the influx of up-and-coming migrant Israeli Jazz musicians to the scene like Tal Yahalom and Gilad Hekselman.

这个项目，建立在我的MRes对犹太人的身份在英国爵士乐现场作为一个试点研究，调查的作用，犹太人的身份发挥在职业生涯中的音乐家目前在纽约爵士乐社区和周围工作。这个项目的中心目标是研究多元化，多元文化的当代（这里定义为音乐家谁是活着的，今天工作）的纽约爵士乐社区在寻找犹太音乐家的方式，和犹太人，与更广泛的场景互动。这将确定犹太折衷主义在日益认同的爵士乐景观中的作用。作为这项研究的一部分，探索的主题将包括klezmer复兴的意义;音乐家如何表演犹太人，看看约翰佐恩的激进犹太文化运动;乌里凯恩和贝拉弗莱克的调解之间的高和低艺术通过爵士乐艺术音乐融合。它还将面对犹太人和非裔美国人身份的交叉点，这两种身份都与纽约的文化历史及其爵士乐场景密不可分。特别是，我将调查如何通过爵士乐和黑人犹太音乐家如约书亚雷德曼的个人经历，这些社区的竞争承认受害者的看法进行谈判。我还将正面处理现代反犹太主义，政治话语和以色列/巴勒斯坦辩论如何影响犹太人与纽约爵士乐和主流犹太社区的接触，特别是考虑到最近反犹太人仇恨犯罪在城市中的上升，围绕左反犹太主义的辩论以及崭露头角的移民以色列爵士乐音乐家的涌入，如塔尔·叶哈洛姆和吉拉德·赫克塞尔曼。