{"product_id":"jazz-among-the-discourses-9780822315810","title":"Jazz Among the Discourses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmploying modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, this title addresses questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A most valuable and engrossing book that will surely be read by all those who write about jazz. Fans will also seek it out. It offers a wealth of perspectives, allowing the reader to learn what people in other disciplines have to say about jazz.\"—Lewis Porter, author, with Michael Ullman, of \u003ci\u003eJazz: From Its Origins to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A remarkable variety of voices and perspectives, and yet the overall thrust of the collection—to establish the groundwork on which a field of jazz studies could be founded—is quite clear. \u003ci\u003eJazz Among the Discourses\u003c\/i\u003e will have an obvious impact on musicology, simply because nothing like it has ever been attempted.\"—Scott DeVeaux, University of Virginia\u003cbr\u003e“A groundbreaking anthology.” * DownBeat *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Jazz Canon and Its Consequences \/ Krin Gabbard 1\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking Jazz History \u003cbr\u003e \"Moldy Figs\" and Modernists: Jazz at War (1942–1946) \/ Bernard Gendron 31\u003cbr\u003e Jazz in Crisis, 1948–1958: Ideology and Representation \/ Steven B. Elworth 57\u003cbr\u003e Other: From Noun to Verb \/ Nathaniel Mackey 76\u003cbr\u003e Historical Context and the Definition of Jazz: Putting More of the History in \"Jazz History\" \/ William Howland Kenney 100\u003cbr\u003e Oral Histories of Jazz Musicians: The NEA Transcripts as Texts in Context \/ Burton W. Peretti 117\u003cbr\u003e The Media of Memory: The Seductive Menace of Records in Jazz History \/ Jed Rasula 134\u003cbr\u003e Jazz Artists Among the Discourses \u003cbr\u003e \"Out of Notes\": Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis \/ Robert Walser 165\u003cbr\u003e Critical Alchemy: Anthony Braxton and the Imagined Tradition \/ Ronald M. Radano 189\u003cbr\u003e Ephemera Underscored: Writing Around Free Improvisation \/ John Corbett 217\u003cbr\u003e The Essential Context: Jazz and Politics \u003cbr\u003e Double V, Double-Time: Bebop's Politics of Style \/ Eric Lott 243\u003cbr\u003e Ascension: Music and the Black Arts Movement \/ Lorenzo Thomas 256\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 275\u003cbr\u003e Index 277","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138189525335,"sku":"9780822315810","price":109.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822315810.jpg?v=1751918368","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jazz-among-the-discourses-9780822315810","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}