Description
Book Synopsis
Considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities have shaped over the course of the twentieth century. This book explores the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large.
Trade Review
"Ake blends careful historical research with intelligent textual criticism and sophisticated cultural theory.... His critiques augment and enhance our understanding and appreciation of great artistry, but they do much more. This is new, imaginative, original, and generative work. There are very few people who can write about both music theory and social theory with such clarity, depth, and insight." - George Lipsitz, author of Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction One "Blue Horizon" Creole Culture and Early New Orleans Jazz Two Jazz Historiography and the Problem of Louis Jordan Three Regendering Jazz Ornette Coleman and the New York Scene in the Late 1950s Four Body and Soul Performing Deep Jazz Five Jazz 'Traning John Coltrane and the Conservatory Six Jazz Traditioning Setting Standards at Century's Close Notes Index
