Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Platform Vernaculars and the Mediation of Musical Meaning: A Virtual Ethnography of Chinese Jazz Culture Hong Kong Baptist University, In the past five years, there has been an increasing number of research papers on the virtual ethnography of jazz music and its fans, but there are almost no studies on the virtual jazz life in Chinese context. This article addresses that gap by examining platform vernaculars—memes, posts, commentaries, and forum threads—circulating on RedNote, Bilibili, Douban, and Reddit. It explores how these digital practices shape contemporary jazz culture and urban musical life in China, particularly through discussions of jazz recordings, improvisation, live performances, and festival experiences, at a moment marked by the rapid growth of large-scale outdoor jazz festivals in cities such as Shanghai and Hong Kong. The study also considers how online communities negotiate aesthetic values, musical authenticity, and understandings of what constitutes “real jazz” in contemporary China. The study brings together affective and symbolic media theory with Peter Kivy’s resemblance theory to theorize how musical meaning emerges through both communicative exchange and structural musical reference. Drawing on virtual ethnography and qualitative discourse analysis, the research compiles a corpus of over 300 discussion threads and associated comment chains, catalogs widely circulated memes, and includes semi-structured interviews with influential jazz bloggers, thread initiators, and forum moderators. The findings suggest that online jazz lifeworlds mediate tensions between artistic authenticity and commercial expectation, translating digital discourse into offline participation, festival attendance, and consumer practices. This study contributes to research on digital music life and musicological debates on musical identity formation. · | |