Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form

摘要

In Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form, Damon Phillips takes on the ambitious task of exploring the diffusion mechanisms of this uniquely American art form. Phillips combines a variety of methodological approaches with unique data sources to form and test hypotheses about the geographical origins of early jazz recordings, the frequency of rerecord-ings, notions of connectedness and disconnectedness of major jazz cities, and the role of record labels. The book melds archival data, oral histories, newspaper and magazine articles, critical reviews, and essays into a comprehensive treatise on the formation and diffusion of jazz's recorded history. The author should be commended on the depth and scope of the work.