ABSTRACT
Globalization operates at many levels, in addition to the economic. It occurs in politics, war, migration, crime, terrorism, the environment, at a cultural level, and in all forms of media. In practice, both outcomes seem to be occurring, with homogeneity ensuing through the dominance in the marketplace of global pop, the so-called globalization process, and hybridity resulting from the interaction of global pop with local musical forms, the so-called glocalization effect. This process has also occurred in jazz where both globalized and glocalized versions of the music coexist alongside each other in the global marketplace. It is this process and its consequences that this chapter seeks to explore. As our lives and cultures become more and more subject to the disciplines of the global marketplace, globalization has become a formidable engine for change. But with the globalization of the English language, it also took on distinctly local, or glocal, characteristics that separated it from its birthplace.
