Kind of Man I Am - Jazzmasculinity and the World of Charles Mingus Jr.

Nearly four decades after his death, Charles Mingus Jr. remains one of the least understood and most recognized jazz composers and musicians of our time. Mingus¿s ideas about music, racial identity, and masculinity¿as well as those of other individuals in his circle, like Celia Mingus, Hazel Scott, and Joni Mitchell¿challenged jazz itself as a model of freedom, inclusion, creativity, and emotional expressivity. Drawing on archival records, published memoirs, and previously conducted interviews, The Kind of Man I Am uses Mingus as a lens through which to craft a gendered cultural history of postwar jazz culture. This book challenges the persisting narrative of Mingus as jazz¿s ¿Angry Man¿ by examining the ways the language of emotion has been used in jazz as shorthand for competing ideas about masculinity, authenticity, performance, and authority.

About the author

NICHOLE RUSTIN-PASCHAL earned a JD from the University of Virginia and a PhD from New York University. She is coeditor of Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies.

Summary

An exploration of masculinity in jazz culture and the work of Charles Mingus Jr.

Product details

• Authors: Nichole Rustin Paschal, Nichole Rustin-Paschal
• Publisher: University press new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780819577566
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-7756-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Music/Culture; Music/Culture (Paperback); Music/Culture; Music / Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories