What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists

What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists / Eric Porter.

Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Eric (Eric C.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series:Music of the African diaspora ; 6.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Jazz > History and criticism.
African American jazz musicians.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
African American jazz musicians
African Americans > Intellectual life
Jazz
Jazz.
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity
  • Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop
  • Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus
  • Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing
  • Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community
  • Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation
  • The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.

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