Damon Phillips' first book, Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels, and the Global Emergence of an Art Form, is a timely and path-finding contribution to the growing sociological and organizational literature dealing with the structural dynamics of creative industries by using social network analysis as a main analytical tool (Cattani & Ferriani, 2008; Godart, Shipilov, & Claes, 2013; Perry-Smith & Shalley, 2003; Uzzi & Spiro, 2005). This book synthesizes, and significantly expands, about a decade of work on jazz by the author and his colleagues (Phillips, 2011; Phillips & Kim, 2009; Phillips & Owens, 2004). The setting-jazz-makes it an appealing and pleasant read. The book is structured in seven chapters, six of which (1 to 6) are each focused on a specific puzzle related to the central question of "(sociological) congruence," the last one being a synthesis and an opening to further research. "Congruence"-which can be understood as a match between the features of a cultural product and its audiences' needs and expectations-is key to the understanding of jazz-and beyond of any industry "where novelty is rewarded" (p. 143)-because it helps shed light on the thorny question of success in creative industries (Bielby & Bielby, 1994; Godart & Mears, 2009; Salganik, Dodds, & Watts, 2006).
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