Author(s)

Chiaochun Chang

Corresponding Author

Chiaochun Chang

Abstract

Cultural activities make a city become more recognizable. Jazz music is a part of these cultural activities. When a city combines the western jazz music with its traditional instruments, the performance manifested the characters of the city. Particularly in any Asian country, the musicians perform jazz music combine their cultural heritages with the western jazz in an innovative way. At the same time, each of the performance must make profits. To make profits, the performers have to emotionally touch the audiences’ hearts through the music sound effects. Music conveys to the audiences with the unseen substance. The unseen substance is the emotional feeling and a story telling. Music touches audiences’ soul. Plato’s Phaedo is one of the philosophical evidences to explain how jazz music is being expressed. His philosophical theory does not only expose itself in the music. Rather, it finds manifestation in many other figures of expression, embracing the powerful narratives encompassing literature. Jazz music’s rhythms and tones are powerful tools to arouse peoples emotional reaction to repression. Aristotle’s Metaphysics will be discussed in this research, about how the these philosophical concepts apply to jazz music.

Keywords

Plato; Paedo; Aristotle; Metaphysics; Jazz