Jazz/not Jazz - The Music and Its Boundaries

Zusatztext "A sterling collection of writings. . . . There are no misfires. This collection will be useful for decades to come. . . . Highly recommended." Informationen zum Autor David Ake isis Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music! University of Miami. Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and the author of Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century ! (UC Press). Daniel Goldmark is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author and co-author of three books for UC Press: Tunes for ‘Toons ! Beyond the Soundtrack ! and Funny Pictures: Animation and Comedy in Hollywood Klappentext " Jazz/Not Jazz is an innovative and inspiring investigation of jazz as it is practiced! theorized and taught today. Taking their cues from current debates within jazz scholarship! the contributors to this collection open up jazz studies to a transdisciplinarity that is rich in its diversity of approaches! candid in its appraisals of critical worth! transparent in its ideological suppositions! and catholic in its subjects/objects of inquiry."-Kevin Fellezs! author of Birds of Fire: Jazz! Rock! Funk and the Creation of Fusion . "This collection is a delight. Each essay opens up some previously ignored aspect of jazz history. Anyone who knows the New Jazz Studies and is wise enough to acquire this book will immediately devour it."-Krin Gabbard! author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet! Jazz! and American Culture . "This volume is truly one of a kind! eminently readable and filled with new insights. It will make an extremely important contribution to jazz literature."-Jeffrey Taylor! Director! H. Wiley Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music! Brooklyn College. Zusammenfassung What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Categories 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography Eric Porter 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo Elijah Wald 3. The Humor of Jazz Charles Hiroshi Garrett 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community Ken Prouty 5. Latin Jazz! Afro-Latin Jazz! Afro-Cuban Jazz! Cubop! Caribbean Jazz! Jazz Latin! or Just . . . Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music Christopher Washburne Part Two. Practices 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook John Howland 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Records and the Problems of Genre Daniel Goldmark 8. The Praxis of Composition-Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship Tamar Barzel 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz Loren Kajikawa Part Three. Education 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education Jessica Bissett Perea 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education David Ake 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies Sherrie Tucker Contributors Index ...

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• Authors: David Ake, David Garrett Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel editors Goldmark
• Assisted by: David Ake (Editor), Ake David (Editor), Charles H. Garrett (Editor), Charles Hiroshi Garrett (Editor), Daniel Goldmark (Editor), Daniel Ira Goldmark (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2012
• EAN: 9780520271043
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27104-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book (UPCCP); A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Jazz, USA, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, United States of America, USA, Popular Music