Musical Micro-utopias: Jazz everywhere and everyone playing jazz

Rob Smith

Musical Micro-utopias: Jazz everywhere and everyone playing jazz

Rob Smith

Creative Industries Research and Innovation Group

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Abstract

This article discusses the ideas of musical pleasure and micro-utopias by referring to three examples as briefly as possible in the full knowledge that the subjects merit a much longer and more detailed study. That is beyond the scope of this iteration. Apart from the Brecon Jazz section, which compares my personal experiences of the festival with published reports, the examples here are drawn from interviews with community music big band Wonderbrass and members of Creative Republic of Cardiff who run the Moon Club and organise the HUB festival.

Original language	English
Article number	5
Pages (from-to)	56-66
Number of pages	11
Journal	Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music
Volume	5
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 17 Dec 2021

Keywords

Musical pleasure
Flow
Local Music Scenes
Music and Communities
Live Music Policy

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Musical Micro-utopias: Jazz everywhere and everyone playing jazz

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