Jazz Among the Discourses

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Titel: Jazz Among the Discourses

Beteiligte: Bernard, Gendron [Mitwirkende:r]; Burton W., Peretti [Mitwirkende:r]; Eric, Lott [Mitwirkende:r]; Gabbard, Krin [Herausgeber:in]; Krin, Gabbard [Mitwirkende:r]; Lorenzo, Thomas [Mitwirkende:r]; Nathaniel, Mackey [Mitwirkende:r]; Robert, Walser [Mitwirkende:r]; Ronald M., Radano [Mitwirkende:r]; Steven B., Elworth [Mitwirkende:r]; Ted, Rasula [Mitwirkende:r]; Tohn, Corbett [Mitwirkende:r]; William Howland, Kenney [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: Durham: Duke University Press, [1995]
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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p); 7 illustrations

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780822397083

ISBN: 9780822397083

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Schlagwörter: Jazz History and criticism ; Musical canon ; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Jazz Canon and Its Consequences -- RETHINKING JAZZ HISTORY -- "Moldy Figs" and Modernists: Jazz at War (I942-I946) -- Jazz in Crisis, I948-I958: Ideology and Representation -- Other: From Noun to Verb -- Historical Context and the Definition of Jazz: Putting More of the History in "Jazz History" -- Oral Histories of Jazz Musicians: The NEA Transcripts as Texts in Context -- The Media of Memory: The Seductive Menace of Records in Jazz History -- THE JAZZ ARTIST AMONG THE DISCOURSES -- "Out of Notes": Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis -- Critical Alchemy; Anthony Braxton and the Imagined Tradition -- Ephemera Underscored: Writing Around Free Improvisation -- THE ESSENTIAL COM TEXT: JAZZ AND POLITICS -- Double V; Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style -- Ascension: Music and the Black Arts Movement -- Contributors -- Index

The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz.Challenging "official jazz histories," the contributors to this volume view jazz through the lenses of comparative literature; African American studies; music, film, and communication theory; English literature; American studies; history; and philosophy. With uncommon rigor and imagination, their essays probe the influence of various discourses—journalism, scholarship, politics, oral history, and entertainment—on writing about jazz. Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, they address questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art? How is an African American aesthetic articulated through the music? What are the consequences of the interaction between the critic and the jazz artist? How does the improvising artist navigate between chaos and discipline?Along with its companion volume, Representing Jazz, this versatile anthology marks the arrival of jazz studies as a mature, intellectually independent discipline. Its rethinking of conventional jazz discourse will further strengthen the position of jazz studies within the academy.Contributors. John Corbett, Steven B. Elworth, Krin Gabbard, Bernard Gendron, William Howland Kenney, Eric Lott, Nathaniel Mackey, Burton Peretti, Ronald M. Radano, Jed Rasula, Lorenzo Thomas, Robert Walser

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