Ryo TATSUMI    Department   Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Languages  , Department of English Studies for Careers    Position   Assistant Professor-lecturer
Language	Japanese
Publication Date	2013/11
Type	Academic Paper
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	Music and Production of Identity: Focusing on African-American Jazz
Contribution Type	Single author
Journal Type	Japan
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.207-218
Total page number	11
Details	After the American civil rights movement, racial, ethic, and sexual minorities rose up to win their political, educational and human rights. The coming of the multiculturalism era has changed minorities' mind. Minorities realize that they should deconstruct their beliefs that the core is White Anglo-Saxon culture in the United States. They begin to constitute identities using media including music. However, in the multicultural society, it's hard to understand what the core of cultural identity is, because identities are always intrinsically shifting, it's not a thing but a process. For instance, music seems to be significant for the production of identities in the United States, since music offers a sense of self across classes, races, ethnicities, genders and nations. This paper aims at clarifying how the music as minorities' culture, especially focusing on African-American jazz music, constitutes their identities under scarce economic, political and social resources.