What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians As Artists, Critics, and Activists

Name: What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians As Artists, Critics, and Activists
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780520232969

ISBN-10: 0520232968

ISBN-13: 9780520232969

Edition: 2002

Authors: Eric Porter

List price: $34.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Sell

Get cash fast!

Semester Rental: $19.09 Due date: 8/14/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy used: $11.98

Buy new: $30.70

Marketplace

3 new & used from $13.62

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

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 overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of jazz: the formative years of the 1920s and…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 1/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 425
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



acknowledgments


Introduction



"A Marvel of Paradox":




"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":



Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments of Permissions


Index