Performance of Authenticity - The Makings of Jazz and the Self in Autobiography

Informationen zum Autor By Teófilo Espada-Brignoni Klappentext In this book the author analyzes the autobiographies of Baby Dodds, Sidney Bechet, Pops Foster, and Lee Collins by integrating social, psychological, and literary theories. He argues that the autobiographies of New Orleans jazz musicians construct a sense of self and the collective grounded in ideas about authenticity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Chapter 1: Subjectivation, Music, and Autobiography Chapter 2: Storying Jazz: Bechet, Dodds, Collins, and Foster Chapter 3: An Ethics of Authenticity Chapter 4: Being a Jazz Man Chapter 5: "Growing into the Music" Chapter 6: Wise Old-Timers Chapter 7: Stylizing the Self: The Mechanic and the Domestic

Product details

• Authors: Teofilo Espada-Brignoni, Teófilo Espada-Brignoni
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781793624383
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-438-3
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Jazz, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, Biography: arts & entertainment, Musicians, singers, bands & groups, Popular Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Composers & songwriters