Publication Title
Jazz and American Culture
Document Type
Book Chapter
Department or Program
Music
Publication Date
11-9-2023
Keywords
jazz, institutions, political economy, gender, race, Institute of Jazz Studies, SF Jazz Center, Institute for Jazz and Gender Justice
Abstract
To speak of institutions is usually to invoke an idea of brick-and-mortar establishments, and the organizations that inhabit and sustain them. However, an institution is as much an idea as it is a thing: the institutionalization of a musical genre is, above all else, the formalization of a narrative about the genre, and of the value system that the narrative embodies. The present chapter touches upon three instances of the institutionalization of jazz in the United States since the Second World War, including the Institute of Jazz Studies, housed at Rutgers University in New Jersey; the SF Jazz Center in San Francisco; and the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice at the Berklee College of Music. I seek here to discern what their supporting narratives can tell us about shifting conceptions of jazz institutionalism, and its reflection of broader ideas about the music’s role in American and global musical culture.
Recommended Citation
Chapman, Dale. “The Institutionalization of Jazz.” In Jazz and American Culture. Ed. Michael Borshuk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 173–186. Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture.
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This material has been published in Jazz and American Culture Edited by Michael Borshuk https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009420167.015 This is the publisher's version of the work. This chapter appears in Bates College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
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Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009420167.015