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Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

Released Monday, 23rd December 2024
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Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

Racial Economies of Early Jazz with Stephanie Doktor

Monday, 23rd December 2024
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What is jazz and when did it begin? Music scholars do not agree. Taking an archival perspective, however, clarifies the dilemma and allows us to see jazz where people at the time performed, recorded, consumed, and discussed what they thought of as jazz music. The emergence of jazz as an economic force, and a defining cultural aspect of an era, were tightly bound up in the prevailing system of racism, segregation, and inequality in the early twentieth-century United States.

In her latest book project, Stephanie Doktor, assistant professor of Music Studies at Temple University, explores the racial context within which the jazz recording industry developed, and the indelible mark left by the systemic racism of the period upon the music industry to the present day. Using the Victor-RCA records held in the Hagley Library, Dr. Doktor reveals how race, class, and gender mutually shaped the political economy of early jazz.

In support of her work, Dr. Doktor received funding from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. For more information, and more Hagley History Hangouts, please visit us online at hagley.org.

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