The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9780367677794 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 186 str.

Ádám Havas

Opis

Drawing on an extensive, four-year field research project, including ethnographic observations and 27 in-depth interviews, this book is the first to explore the hidden diasporic narrative(s) of Hungarian jazz through the system of historically formed cultural distinctions.

Recenzje

What a complex, brilliant little book! It's best to read it as
- a tour de force in the ethnography of performing arts, putting the field of jazz in Hungary on the map of the social sciences world-wide,
- a courageous renewal of the Bourdieusian dialect of sociology, from the sidelines of European bourgeois modernity,
- an ethnography of the place of 'race' and identity as they appear in the cosmos of the creative arts, and dance in the double bind of Dirty Whiteness and (dis)privilege,
- an insider-outsider take on the whirl of radically open-ended art,
- an account of creative lives that vibrate between bebop inspirations and the "burden of free idioms", negotiating the all-important informal scripts played in the "Roma" and "assimilated Jewish" scenes, and
- a sparkling allegory for semiperipheral east-central Europe, a tiny universe of its own, forever in search of a sound-finding a voice that it can regard as its own.

József Böröcz, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA

O autorze

Dr Ádám Havas is Head of the Social Sciences Division at the Milestone Institute, Hungary