{"id":10477,"date":"2020-06-22T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/?post_type=focus&p=10477"},"modified":"2020-06-23T16:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:52:12","slug":"afro-descendant-jazz-sets-the-tone-except-in-france","status":"publish","type":"focus","link":"https:\/\/www.auxsons.com\/en\/focus\/afro-descendant-jazz-sets-the-tone-except-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Afro-descendant jazz sets the tone\u2026 except in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

While jazz is regaining popularity with millennials thanks, in large part, to hybrid compositions by black musicians haunted by its social and militant DNA<\/span>, it\u2019s clear that in France, the genre is represented by a rather inward-looking white elite. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jazz is a music that has ended up mutating over the centuries into several different forms and definitions. One of these \u2013 and undoubtedly the most vibrant \u2013 is still relevant today: like much originally black music, jazz encompasses a range of social realities depending on where it spreads. \u201cJazz is, with hip-hop, the most literal form of the rebellions that play out within black American music as well as in our society\u201d, explained saxophonist Marcus Strickland to the French daily newspaper <\/span>Lib\u00e9ration<\/span><\/i> in 2016, in an article describing how many black musicians of American jazz\u2019s Generation X re-appropriated the Black Lives Matter social movement through their compositions. \u201cJazz is a battle\u201d, claimed the Californian trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire in <\/span>Jazz Magazine<\/span><\/i> in February 2019 on the release of his latest record <\/span>Origami Harvest<\/span><\/i>, in which we see the racial tensions in the United States that are a recurrent theme in his work. It is not surprising that jazz is injected with militancy and takes on a socio-identity guise in the country of its birth. <\/span><\/p>\n

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