{"title":"A Tale of Two Cities (and Two Ways of Being Inauthentic): The Politics of College Jazz in “Official Cleveland” and in the “Other Cleveland”","authors":"George Blake","doi":"10.5406/ethnomusicology.65.3.0549","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In this article, I consider how discourses of jazz authenticity register social tensions in Cleveland, Ohio. Scholars have shown that the relationship between jazz and higher education is nothing new. However, fans and musicians express conflicting impulses toward college jazz. On the one hand, college jazz presents the financial and symbolic benefits of institutional legitimacy. Many musicians are themselves college jazz graduates and teachers. On the other hand, many express an aversion grounded in the belief that real jazz happens in urban nightclubs. I argue that people mobilize authenticity to critique college jazz in order to invoke the inequality of the city’s urban past and the invisibility of its rich jazz history.","PeriodicalId":51751,"journal":{"name":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ETHNOMUSICOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.65.3.0549","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this article, I consider how discourses of jazz authenticity register social tensions in Cleveland, Ohio. Scholars have shown that the relationship between jazz and higher education is nothing new. However, fans and musicians express conflicting impulses toward college jazz. On the one hand, college jazz presents the financial and symbolic benefits of institutional legitimacy. Many musicians are themselves college jazz graduates and teachers. On the other hand, many express an aversion grounded in the belief that real jazz happens in urban nightclubs. I argue that people mobilize authenticity to critique college jazz in order to invoke the inequality of the city’s urban past and the invisibility of its rich jazz history.
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As the official journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology is the premier publication in the field. Its scholarly articles represent current theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields, while playing a central role in expanding the discipline in the United States and abroad. Aimed at a diverse audience of musicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, cultural studies scholars, musicians, and others, this inclusive journal also features book, recording, film, video, and multimedia reviews. Peer-reviewed by the Society’s international membership, Ethnomusicology has been published three times a year since the 1950s.