Abstract
This article aims to study the impact that networks of contacts and circles of musicians have in generating work opportunities within the musical field of jazz. The research has been framed within the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu's artistic field (1984, 1987) and the main characteristics of conformation of collaborative circles studied by Michael P. Farrell (2003). The methodology used is qualitative and is based on semi-structured interviews and participant observation conducted between 2015 and 2016 with musicians from the jazz scene of the city of Barcelona. From this fieldwork, we have analyzed the main contributions that contact networks and collaborative circles of jazz musicians offer to generate work opportunities within the musical artistic field. We have also studied how the collective work and the conformation of musical groups become a crucial artistic and creative platform both for the development of the individual careers of musicians and in the field of joint exploration of the musical language itself.
Highlights
The present research aims to study the construction and the role of collaborative circles in jazz musicians
The focus of analysis was on the musical genre of jazz, and on the musicians who make up the jazz scene in Barcelona, a city that throughout the 20th century grew as a nerve center of the Catalan jazz scene and that currently has a strong presence in the jazz world both in a local and international context
The jazz scene in Barcelona is made up of different participants who articulate their relationships to carry out their different musical practices
Summary
The present research aims to study the construction and the role of collaborative circles in jazz musicians. The fieldwork of the present article was based on thirty interviews realized between October 2015 and November 20161 with professional jazz musicians resident in Barcelona. The first section of the article presents the theoretical framework that encompasses the present investigation, specifying, mainly, the conceptual perspective of the artistic field of Pierre Bourdieu and the collaborative circles of Michael P. The second section presents the methodological and design approach that has been followed by the research, specifying mainly the techniques of data collection used and the fieldwork done. A third section, based on the fieldwork, analyzes the main contributions that circles and networks of contacts offer to jazz musicians, and the fundamental importance that the collective as a platform assumes in terms of creation and development of the artistic language. As a synthesis, we offer a section of conclusions that seeks to close the analytical approach of the presented theme
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