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

这个项目，建立在我的MRes在英国爵士舞台上的犹太人身份作为一个试点研究，调查犹太人身份在音乐家的职业生涯中所扮演的角色，目前在纽约爵士社区工作。这个项目的中心目标是研究纽约的多元文化的当代（这里定义为今天还活着和工作的音乐家）爵士乐社区，寻找犹太音乐家和犹太人与更广泛的场景互动的方式。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。作为本研究的一部分，探讨的主题将包括克莱兹默复兴的意义；音乐家如何表现犹太性，看看约翰·佐恩的激进犹太文化运动；Uri Caine和b<s:1> la Fleck通过爵士乐与艺术音乐的融合来调解高雅艺术与低俗艺术。它还将面对犹太人和非裔美国人身份的交集，这两者都与纽约的文化历史和爵士乐有着千丝万缕的联系。特别是，我将研究如何通过爵士乐和像约书亚·雷德曼（Joshua Redman）这样的黑人犹太音乐家的个人经历来协商这些社区作为承认受害者身份的竞争的看法。我还将正面探讨现代反犹主义、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，特别是考虑到最近该市反犹太仇恨犯罪的上升、围绕左翼反犹主义的辩论以及Tal Yahalom和Gilad Hekselman等崭露头角的以色列移民爵士音乐家的涌入。

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.