Transcultural Jazz

<p><em>Transcultural Jazz: Israeli Musicians and Multi-Local Music Making</em> studies jazz performance and composition through the examination of the transcultural practices of Israeli jazz musicians and their impact globally.</p><p>An impressive number of Israeli jazz performers have received widespread exposure and worldwide acclaim creating music that melds aspects of American jazz with an array of Israeli Jewish and Middle Eastern influences and other non-Western musical traditions. While each musician is developing their own approach to musical transculturation common threads connect them all. Unraveling and analyzing these entangled sounds and related discourses lies at the center of this study. This book provides broad insight into the nature role and politics of transcultural music making in contemporary jazz practice. Focusing on a particular group of Israeli musicians to enhance knowledge of modern Israeli society culture discourses and practices the research and analyses presented in this book are based on extensive fieldwork in multiple sites in the United States and Israel and interviews with musicians educators journalists producers and scholars.</p><p><i>Transcultural Jazz</i> is an engaging read for students and scholars from diverse fields such as: jazz studies ethnomusicology Jewish studies Israel studies and transnational studies.</p>