Gender politics, UK jazz festivals and COVID-19: Maintaining the momentum of change during a time of crisis

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Jazz Research Journal Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1558/jazz.43395

S. Raine

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Abstract

Music festivals offer a valuable glimpse into the state of the current musical landscape. Through them we can follow the career trajectories of particular artists, spot genre trends and divergences, identify connections and differences, and make sense of emerging scenes. Equally, music festivals lay bare the continued inequalities that exist;inclusions and absences are starkly visible in festival line-ups, and marketing and communications provide inspiration for public debate and the fuel for change. For scholars, festivals offer a context through which to examine the complex politics of music, condensed into a specific time and place yet engaging with global trends and debates, with international artists and audiences, with the past and the future, all within the economic and social context of the music industries. From spring 2020, we could clearly plot through music festivals the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on live music as we have previously known it, the government-driven lockdowns and social distancing regulations bringing an abrupt halt to live performance and threatening the existence of many music festivals. This period of disruption extended also to the outreach, education, artist development, fundraising, partnership working, and overall strategies of festival teams, to include festival-driven and global attempts to address significant issues relating to access and diversity within the music industries. This article explores gender politics from the stage of UK jazz festivals and considers the momentum of gender-focused initiatives during a period of international crisis.

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性别政治、英国爵士音乐节和COVID-19:在危机时期保持变革势头

音乐节为我们提供了了解当前音乐现状的宝贵机会。通过它们，我们可以跟踪特定艺术家的职业轨迹，发现流派趋势和分歧，识别联系和差异，并理解新出现的场景。同样，音乐节也暴露了持续存在的不平等;音乐节的阵容中，包容和缺席是显而易见的，营销和传播为公众辩论提供了灵感，为变革提供了动力。对于学者来说，音乐节提供了一个背景，通过这个背景来研究音乐的复杂政治，浓缩到一个特定的时间和地点，但与全球趋势和辩论，与国际艺术家和观众，与过去和未来，都在音乐产业的经济和社会背景下进行。从2020年春季开始，我们可以通过音乐节清楚地描绘出我们之前所知道的新冠肺炎大流行对现场音乐的全球影响，政府推动的封锁和社会距离规定导致现场表演突然停止，并威胁到许多音乐节的存在。这段中断时期也延伸到推广、教育、艺术家发展、筹款、合作伙伴工作和音乐节团队的整体战略，包括音乐节驱动和全球尝试解决与音乐产业内的准入和多样性有关的重大问题。本文从英国爵士音乐节的舞台上探讨了性别政治，并考虑了在国际危机时期以性别为中心的倡议的势头。

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期刊介绍： Jazz Research Journal explores a range of cultural and critical views on jazz. The journal celebrates the diversity of approaches found in jazz scholarship and provides a forum for interaction and the cross-fertilisation of ideas. It is a development and extension of The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism founded in 2004 at the Leeds College of Music. The journal aims to represent a range of disciplinary perspectives on jazz, from musicology to film studies, sociology to cultural studies, and offers a platform for new thinking on jazz. In this respect, the editors particularly welcome articles that challenge traditional approaches to jazz and encourage writings that engage with jazz as a discursive practice. Jazz Research Journal publishes original and innovative research that either extends the boundaries of jazz scholarship or explores themes which are central to a critical understanding of the music, including the politics of race and gender, the shifting cultural representation of jazz, and the complexity of canon formation and dissolution. In addition to articles, the journal features a reviews section that publishes critical articles on a variety of media, including recordings, film, books, educational products and multimedia publications.