Maybe it’s different around the world but where I live it is EXCLUSIVELY the purview of yuppie rich kids who go to fancy music schools. There is not a non-white person in sight. It’s also completely male dominated and most of those males are completely terrible with women (based on stories I’ve heard from femmes in that scene).

Like yeh they’re talented musicians but they’re insufferable and it’s classist and sexist and just gives me the ick big time. They colonised jazz folks.

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[–] Terrarium@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Through academification, Jazz is treated like a 2000-year old rigid mathematical framework that you need to practice correctly for 15 years before you're allowed to speak on it. The priests training to do this need $5000-$20,000 for their instrument(s), a private tutor for a decade, band camp every summer for 4-6 years, experience in 3-5 ensembles, and then a bachelor's degree in music at minimum, so about $30k or so just for the music classes part. Then and only then can you truly appreciate the theory of "Charlie Parker improvised using registers" and, "Jazz is about knowing when to play the wrong note, honky".