Abstract
Using Bourdieusian approach, this article explores the reflexive strategies of young jazz musicians in order to develop their musical practices in a contemporary urban context of Yogyakarta, a city of culture and activism in Indonesia. In detail, the reflexive strategy (Sweetman 2003; Threadgold Nilan 2009) will be explained as the manifestation of struggle in the field of cultural production (Bourdieu 1993). As an implication, young jazz musicians have to negotiate their musical practices with the reproduction of doxa and the representation of dominant agents in the jazz music field including the availability of public spaces in contemporary Yogyakarta. The resistance towards doxa will be explained based on the local narratives of the Yogyakarta jazz community as a mixture of the local and the trans-local scene (Bennett Peterson 2004). Furthermore, the reflexive strategy will be analysed through the lens of the youth culture perspective specifically as a manifestation of a mixture between post-subculture (Bennett 1999) and subculture (Blackman 2005). In their everyday musical practices, young jazz musicians produce their musical practices fluidly and flexibly as a lifestyle distinction as well as a form of everyday life resistance. In summary, this article shows the complexity of the musical processes of young jazz musicians in contemporary urban space of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Highlights
In Indonesia, jazz as a form of cultural production reached a peak of popularity in the post -1998 reform era
As a city of education and culture, the dynamic nature of contemporary Yogyakarta is mostly driven by creative university students, intellectuals and artists from various fields of cultural production
Based on my participant observation, contemporary Yogyakarta nowadays is in the process of transformation into a more touristic city which is extremely driven by capital infiltration in all aspect of everyday life
Summary
In Indonesia, jazz as a form of cultural production reached a peak of popularity in the post -1998 reform era. This is an extraordinary phenomenon at a national level and at a local level including Yogyakarta as a site of my participant observation. As a city of education and culture, the dynamic nature of contemporary Yogyakarta is mostly driven by creative university students, intellectuals and artists from various fields of cultural production. Based on my participant observation, contemporary Yogyakarta nowadays is in the process of transformation into a more touristic city which is extremely driven by capital infiltration in all aspect of everyday life. In Bourdieusian terminology, it can be argued that the logic of profit becomes
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