Remixing European Jazz Culture

<p><em>Remixing European Jazz Culture</em> examines a jazz culture that emerged in the 1990s in cosmopolitan cities like Amsterdam Rotterdam Berlin London and Oslo – energised by the introduction of studio technologies into the live performance space which has since developed into internationally recognised eclectic hybrid jazz styles. This book explores these oft-overlooked musicians and their forms that have nonetheless expanded the plane of jazz’s continued prosperity popularity and revitalisation in the twenty-first century – one where remix is no longer the sole domain of studio producers.</p><p>Seeking to update the orthodoxies of the field of jazz studies <i>Remixing European Jazz Culture:</i></p><ul> <p> </p> <li>incorporates electronic and digital performance recording and distribution practices that have transformed the culture since the 1980s; </li> <li>provides a more diverse and multifaceted cultural representation of European jazz and the contributions of a variety of performers; and</li> <li>offers an encompassing picture of the depth of jazz practice that has erupted through Northern Europe since 1989.</li> </ul><p>With an expansion of international networks and a disintegration of artistic boundaries the collaborative performative and real-time improvisational process of remixing has stimulated a merging of the music’s past and present within European jazz culture.</p>