New Musical Figurations

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Sources and Methods1. Introduction: A New Musical Balance2. Chicago as Aesthetic Center3. Musical Assertions of Black Identity4. New Musical Convergences: Paris and New York5. Defining a Black Vanguard Aesthetic6. Black Experimentalism as SpectacleEpilogue: Jazz RecastAppendix APicture Titles of Compositions CitedAppendix BRecordings Cited/Anthony Braxton on RecordMusic IndexGeneral Index

Zusammenfassung

By relating biography to the cultural and musical contours of contemporary American life, Ronald M. Radano observes jazz practice as part of the complex interweaving of postmodern culture. Radano accomplishes this by analyzing the creative life of Anthony Braxton.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ronald M. Radano, Ronald Michael Radano, Radano Ronald M.
• Verlag: University Of Chicago Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.12.1993
• EAN: 9780226701967
• ISBN: 978-0-226-70196-7
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Schule und Lernen > Unterrichtsvorbereitung > Berufliche Bildung; Jazz, Blues, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, Biography: arts & entertainment, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Biography: arts and entertainment, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)