Jazz Sells Music, Marketing, and Meaning [Hardcover]

Jazz Sells: Music, Marketing, and Meaningexamines the issues of jazz, consumption, and capitalism through advertising. On television, on the Internet, in radio, and in print, advertising is a critically important medium for the mass dissemination of music and musical meaning. This book is a study of the use of the jazz genre as a musical signifier in promotional efforts, exploring how the relationship between brand, jazz music, and jazz discourses come together to create meaning for the product and the consumer. At the same time, it examines how jazz offers an invaluable lens through which to examine the complex and often contradictory culture of consumption upon which capitalism is predicated.

1. Introduction  2. Pimps, Rebels, and Volkswagens  3. Autoeroticism: Sex, Cars, and Jazz  4. The New Sound of Cola  5. The Bank of Music   6. Conclusion

Jazz Sellsusefully furthers our understanding of how music has been used to sell goods, and entice people to buy them. This is a welcome addition to the small but fast-growing literature on music and consumer culture.  Timothy D. Taylor, author of The Sounds of Capitalism: Advertising, Music, and the Conquest of Culture

At once a study of the political economy of music in marketing and of jazz historiography, Jazz Sellsencouragesindeed, requiresus to think in new and provocative ways about the many meanings jazz has had and continues to have. Engaging and witty, few studies match Lavers in interdisciplinary relevance and significance to the discipline of jazz studies at once.  Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Mark Lavers work offers jazz as a lens to scrutinize consumer capitalism, its mechanisms, and its cultural meanings. His clearly written, rich analysis points out the tensil(