Modernism and Record Covers: Raising the Status of Jazz in Sweden

IF 1.4 1区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY
Mischa van Kan
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By introducing a wider understanding of the discourse of modernism at the time that record covers were introduced, this article investigates record covers as a means through which various actors in the Swedish jazz scene connected jazz with modernist art forms. In the 1950s, specific designs for record sleeves became integrated into the ways in which jazz was mediated in Sweden, which coincided with wider debates about whether jazz could be seen as an art form. The main question of this article is: How did the artwork on record covers influence the acceptance of jazz as an art form in Sweden? In responding to this question, the article aims to demonstrate that, in addition to written discourse, visual objects – in this case record covers – were of great importance to the rising status of jazz in Sweden in the 1950s and 1960s. More broadly, I argue that the visual elements in music cultures can be just as important, if not more so, than written forms of discourse, for negotiating the social status of music.
现代主义与唱片封面:提高爵士乐在瑞典的地位
通过对唱片封面推出时现代主义话语的更广泛理解,本文探讨了唱片封面作为瑞典爵士乐界各种演员将爵士乐与现代主义艺术形式联系起来的一种手段。20世纪50年代,唱片封套的具体设计融入了瑞典爵士乐的传播方式,这与关于爵士乐是否可以被视为一种艺术形式的更广泛争论不谋而合。本文的主要问题是:唱片封套上的艺术作品是如何影响瑞典对爵士乐作为一种艺术形态的接受的?在回答这个问题时,这篇文章旨在证明,除了书面话语之外,视觉对象——在本例中是唱片封面——对爵士乐在20世纪50年代和60年代在瑞典的地位上升具有重要意义。更广泛地说,我认为音乐文化中的视觉元素对于协商音乐的社会地位来说,可能与书面话语形式一样重要,甚至更重要。
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Cultural Sociology
Cultural Sociology SOCIOLOGY-
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3.30
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期刊介绍: Cultural Sociology publishes empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers, which explore from a broad set of sociological perspectives a diverse range of socio-cultural forces, phenomena, institutions and contexts. The objective of Cultural Sociology is to publish original articles which advance the field of cultural sociology and the sociology of culture. The journal seeks to consolidate, develop and promote the arena of sociological understandings of culture, and is intended to be pivotal in defining both what this arena is like currently and what it could become in the future. Cultural Sociology will publish innovative, sociologically-informed work concerned with cultural processes and artefacts, broadly defined.
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