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maj 02, 2004
Jazz-nätverk
Douglas Heckathorn, Joan Jeffri:
Jazz Networks: Using Respondent-Driven Sampling to Study Stratification in two Jazz Musician Communities (PDF).
Abstract:
The literature on jazz has focused on biographies of major figures, the history of styles, and the influence of jazz on society. Only two studies, one in the Netherlands and one in France, have included obscure musicians as well as the famous, and both were limited by the use of nonprobability sampling methods. This study is based on 564 interviews with jazz musicians in the greater New York metropolitan area and the San Francisco Bay area. It employs respondent-driven sampling, a method that permits representative samples to be drawn from hard-to-reach populations. The analysis extends that method by introducing a means for studying the structure of large social networks, by identifying combinations of in-group affiliation bias (homophily) and out-group affiliation bias (heterophily). The results indicate that cohesion among jazz musicians is based, in part, on race and ethnicity, gender, and age (the latter two of which can also be the basis for stratification), and on style of performance, but the most important determinants are professional contacts, involvement in the jazz community, and primary instrument. Inequality by age and gender are greater in San Francisco, and racial and ethnic boundaries are stronger in New York. Drawing on concepts from the literature on small-world networks, we examine spatial networks, and San Francisco is found to have stronger small-world properties than New York.
Conclusion: Is the Jazz Musician Community a Small World?
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Our study also has practical significance. It shows that the boundaries of the jazz musician community can be precisely determined, and therefore programs designed to foster the development of this art form can be precisely targeted and their effects documented. Reliable and consistent data about jazz musicians and their needs provide a useful guide to appropriate amounts of funding for agents, advocates, and the artists themselves.
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We conclude, first, that both the NYC and the SF jazz musician communities qualify as small-world systems: both have far more than the rather modest number of long-distance ties now recognized as required to endow a network with small-world properties. Our second conclusion is that geographic integration is greater in SF, making San Francisco the smaller world. 30
Se även
'Small world' becomes a scientific sampling tactic
Respondent Driven Sampling
How Many Jazz Musicians Are There?
Joan Jeffri: Changing the beat: A study of the Worklife of Jazz Musicians, Executive Summary (PDF)
Joan Jeffri: Changing the beat: A study of the Worklife of Jazz Musicians, Survey Results (PDF)
Ett paper som refereras i flera av ovanstående dokument är Douglas Heckathorn, Joan Jeffri: Finding the beat: Using respondent-driven sampling to study jazz musicians, publicerad i Poetics 28 (4) 2001, tyvärr ej tillgängligt å nätet.
Posted by hakank at maj 2, 2004 08:17 FM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks