Jazz, genre distinction and political economy in the post-digital popular music landscape

该项目将探索数字技术如何在生产、流通和消费等方面改变音乐流派的描述，以及这些变化如何在当代爵士乐领域体现。哪些文化调解人和利益相关者塑造了当代爵士乐中的一般话语？在后数字化时代，谁会从不断变化的权力动态中受益，谁又会为此付出代价？伦敦爵士乐界某些元素目前的流行告诉我们这些转变是什么？音乐家有什么能力来控制他们的音乐在后数字产业环境中被定义、讨论和传播的方式？企业文化赞助对音乐家的归属感有什么样的影响？为什么一个基于数据分析和分类的数字音乐经济模型出现了，同时爵士音乐家和观众越来越多地接受后通用话语和索引流动性？研究将集中在当代伦敦爵士乐现场作为案例研究。这将部分地从定性数据从半结构化的采访数字谁占据了一系列的立场，在伦敦爵士乐领域。除了音乐家，还将采访电台主持人、记者、DJ、场地所有者和观众。至关重要的是，这项研究将针对伦敦爵士乐的广泛利益相关者群体，借鉴那些被视为占据该领域边缘的人以及那些目前获得更广泛关注的人。鉴于新的数字音乐技术所发挥的核心作用，还将对这些行业的员工进行采访。候选人打算通过互联网进行这项研究，利用互联网中介研究的现有方法。

This project will explore how digital technologies have altered the delineation of music in genre terms at the points of production, circulation, and consumption, and how do these changes manifest in the contemporary jazz field. Which cultural mediators and stakeholders shape generic discourse within contemporary jazz? Who benefits, and at whose expense, from the changing power dynamics in the post-digital landscape? What does the current popularity of certain elements of the London jazz scene tell us about these shifts? What capacity do musicians have to control the ways in which their music is defined, discussed and distributed in the post-digital industry environment? What impact does the growing role of corporate cultural sponsorship have upon musicians' attachment to generic identities? Why has an economic model of digital music predicated on data analysis and categorisation emerged alongside a growing embrace of post-generic discourse and indexical fluidity amongst jazz musicians and audiences?The research will focus upon the contemporary London jazz scene as a case study. This will draw in part from qualitative data drawn from semi-structured interviews with figures who occupy a range of positions in the field of London jazz. In addition to musicians, interviews with radio hosts, journalists, DJs, venue owners, and audience members will be conducted. Crucially, the research will address a broad constellation of stakeholders in London jazz, drawing on those who are seen as occupying the margins of the field alongside those who currently command wider attention. Given the central role played by new digital music technologies, interviews with employees in these industries will also be carried out. The candidates intends to perform this research via the Internet, drawing on extant methodologies of internet mediated research.