{"product_id":"carla-bley-9780252036361","title":"Carla Bley","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first in-depth look at a highly innovative jazz icon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beal’s prose is often lyrical and always dynamic, she instantly finds the appropriate pacing for the narrative and, just as quickly, demonstrates deep knowledge of and affection for her subject.”--\u003ci\u003ePopmatters\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Amy C. Beal responds with alacrity and intellectual force to the challenge of contextualizing the work of this uniquely important, yet academically underexplored twentieth-century American composer-performer. An important and salutary work that greatly enriches the field of jazz studies.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--George E. Lewis, author of A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Accurate and kind, \u003ci\u003eCarla Bley\u003c\/i\u003e reveals with remarkable effectiveness the anatomy of the successive moments of Bley's musical life.\"--\u003ci\u003eClarin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Excellent.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beal ... expertly contextualizes Bley's career within the landscapes of emergent avant-garde, free jazz, and experimental music while also exploring her creative relationships with the legendary Steve Swallow, Charlie Haden, and others. . . . Readers and researchers interested in women composers, American music history, music theory, or jazz from 1950 to the present will find this book invaluable.\"--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beal could have easily written a biography three or four times longer than the present volume. But it would be a mistake to consider Carla Bley something of a half-loaf, as it is more than enough to set the record straight.”--\u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCarla Bley\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvel of concision, packing biography, musicology and cogent, descriptive analysis of her major work in barely 100 pages.”--\u003ci\u003eShepherd Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An intelligent and sensitive compositional history of Carla Bley's music. Amy C. Beal honors Bley's famous humor and autodidactism without compromising a serious analysis of Bley's compositions over a very long and distinguished career.\"--Sherrie Tucker, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBig Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures; Acknowledgements  Introduction: \"Like a Mockingbird\"; 1. Walking Woman: Oakland, New York, Los Angeles, New York; 2. Sing Me Softly of the Blues: Early Short Pieces and Songs Without Words; 3. Social Studies: The Jazz Composers Guild and The Jazz Composers Orchestra; 4. \"Mad at Jazz\": A Genuine Tong Funeral;  5. Escalator Over the Hill: Jazz Opera as Fusion; 6. Copyright Royalties: New Music Distribution Service; 7: Big Band Theory: The Carla Bley Band and Other Projects; 8: The Lone Arranger: History and Hilarity; 9: End of Vienna: Fancy Chamber Music; 10. Dreams So Real: \"Jazz is Where My Heart Now Lies\"  Notes; Suggested Listening; Sources; Index","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036819718487,"sku":"9780252036361","price":91.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252036361.jpg?v=1750932654","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/carla-bley-9780252036361","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}