Publication: Jam Sessions in Madrid's Blues Scene: Musical Experience in Hybrid Performance Models
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2014
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Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
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Examining the differences between presentational and participatory music, this paper explores
the importance of jam sessions as hybrid participatory-presentational performance models and
collective musical practices. As such, they display democratic and hierarchic devices that
produce complex social and cultural settings, providing particular frameworks for community
gathering and interaction between the different participants. Based on my field research in
Madrid’s blues scene, where jam sessions have proliferated widely, I will discuss two significant
and distinct jams that take place every Sunday. The aim is to practically analyse what type of
musical experiences and relationships they produce, considering the significance of the blues
genre production and the underground status of the scene. I intend to broaden the academic
interpretation of jam sessions, suggesting hybridity as a theoretical framework for analysing the
social life of situated live music experiences in different genres.
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Jam Session, Madrid, Blues, Presentational, Participatory, Performance
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Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Vol. 4, N.1 (2014), pp. 73-86