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by Marie Buscatto (Author)
Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan explores the ways in which Japanese jazz musicians express themselves through their art- to assert one's creativity, passion, and self-expression-establishing it as an art form. This ethnographic survey contextualizes a shift in the Japanese jazz world over the last thirty years.
Author Biography
Marie Buscatto is Full Professor in Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in France.