Making Jazz in Contemporary Japan: A Passionate Search for Self-Expression

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.

Marie Buscatto is Professor in Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France.