Jazz music: the technological mediation of an aural tradition

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dc.contributor.authorJarvis, Brent
dc.contributor.supervisorSalem, Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-29T00:11:44Z
dc.date.available2021-09-29T00:11:44Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021-09-28
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Musicen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractJazz music is transmitted by aural and oral means. As recording and broadcast mediums became increasingly ubiquitous, starting in the mid twentieth-century, an ever greater proportion of jazz’s aural transmission would be mediated by these developing technologies. Many commentators address sound’s mediation from one state to another by identifying the resulting recording as an object. This object transcends temporal and spacial proximity, possessing inherent authority with implications for authorship, related work-concepts, and even issues of cultural assimilation. From a perspective informed by writings in musicology, philosophy, and sound studies, I examine recorded jazz music from the twentieth-century. I begin by positioning the history of jazz music in relation to the emergence of recording technologies to establish recordings as authoritative texts. I then translate (by transcription) primarily non-literate jazz recordings into the primarily literate discourse of musicology. In the course of examining music by James Moody, Eddie Jefferson, Bud Powell, Chick Corea, and others, I conclude that they all exemplify musical intertextuality. In some cases, technological mediation connects the texts. I then turn to an examination of recordings specifically. I begin by questioning musical notation as an adequate description of sound and move to developing a broader analytical framework. This thesis culminates with a comparison of Bud Powell’s 1949 recording of Bouncin’ With Bud and Chick Corea’s 1997 recording. Using the framework mentioned, disparate potentialities afforded by each recording’s mediation are connected to musical characteristics.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/13418
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectBud Powellen_US
dc.subjectBlossom Dearieen_US
dc.subjectBlue Noteen_US
dc.subjectBouncin' with Buden_US
dc.subjectChick Coreaen_US
dc.subjectChristian McBrideen_US
dc.subjectEddie Jeffersonen_US
dc.subjectI'm In The Mood For Loveen_US
dc.subjectJames Moodyen_US
dc.subjectjazzen_US
dc.subjectKing Pleasureen_US
dc.subjectmediaen_US
dc.subjectmusicen_US
dc.subjectMoody's Mood For Loveen_US
dc.subjectMarshall McLuhanen_US
dc.subjectmusicologyen_US
dc.subjectrecordingen_US
dc.subjectRon Carteren_US
dc.subjectRoy Haynesen_US
dc.subjectRudy Van Gelderen_US
dc.subjectsounden_US
dc.subjectstudiesen_US
dc.subjectThe Flight of the Bopple Beeen_US
dc.titleJazz music: the technological mediation of an aural traditionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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