Jazz in the context of «global village» principle

Abstract

This article addresses one of the manifestations of interaction between different music domains, using the sphere of jazz as an example. In the course of evolution, the art of music has developed five relatively independent domains based on fundamentally different principles of musical thought. Globalization, which has intensified in the 20th century and continues to grow in the 21st, gave birth to a new domain called by us “unionique music”. This domain is the object of our research. The relevance of this study stems from the fact that unionique music compositions do not fit the standard principles of genre classifications used by academic music scholars. At the same time, an important feature that unites these compositions is the combination of such spheres of music as jazz, rock, “traditional” music of Western European academic tradition, ethnic music and folklore. Nevertheless, the degree of impact of a particular music domain in different compositions has different indicators. This article focuses on the analysis of unionique music compositions that contain expressive means of various domains, but at the same time are founded on the jazz-based principle of music playing.