| abstract | In my thesis I argue that the study of musical performance as a form of social interaction is a fruitful approach to address the social aspects of music in a concrete way. The Instant Composers Pool, one of the major bands in Dutch jazz history, is an interesting case study, as its members often define improvisation as similar to everyday social behaviour, and have emphasised the social aspects of performance since the late 1960s up to the present. In the first part of my thesis, I outline a theoretical framework for the nascent field of the study of musical performance, drawing on musicology, sociology, performance studies and philosophy. In the second part I discuss the performances of the ICP in detail. |
| keywords | Music, Jazz, European Jazz, Improvisation, Social Interaction, Performance, Fluxus, Counterculture, Nicholas Cook, Ingrid Monson, Erving Goffman, Bruno Latour, Jon McKenzie, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Relational Musicology, Actor Network Theory, Irony, Humour, Notenkrakers |
