{"product_id":"landing-on-the-wrong-note-9780415923484","title":"Landing on the Wrong Note","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, \u003cem\u003eLanding on the Wrong NOte\u003c\/em\u003e goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today''s jazz musicians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To the extent that the book leaves us wanting more, and opens up questions which still seem important eough to call out for answers, it is a success. It is certainly required reading for anyone interested both in jazz and contemporary critical theory.\" -- William Echard, \u003cem\u003eTopia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"...this kind of work is badly needed in jazz studies. Heble's book raises crucial issues and...the work should certainly be read by anyone interested in jazz as a cultural practice.\" -- William Echard, \u003cem\u003eTopia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eLanding on the Wrong Note...[introduces] some fascinating\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003enew ways of looking at jazz history and articulating a\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ejazz-informed criticism.\" -- Hua Hsu, The Wire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heble approaches the idea of 'dissonance', or non-agreement, as a symptom of the modern condition and its discipline-minded political practices. Take that, Wynton Marsalis!\" -- Hua Hsu, \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heble gets off on the good foot, and many of \u003cem\u003eLanding's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ebest moments tread this sticky cultural line of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eright\/wrong.\" -- Hua Hsu, The Wire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heble draws interesting intellectual alliances between the evolutionary paths tones and sentences, Ezra and Bird.\" -- Hua Hsu, \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heble's methodology is clearly in tune with that of his subject matter.\" -- Scott Thomson, \u003cem\u003eThe Book Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heble once again plays the unanticipated note, very much reflecting dissonant jazz which, despite the deaf-eared citicism of its detractors, has never reallly been about simplistic, 'anything goes' methodology.\" -- Scott Thomson, \u003cem\u003eThe Book Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To properly appreciate \u003cem\u003eLanding on the Wrong Noteyou have\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eto put on your thinking cap, find a quiet place, and wade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ethrough a high density of ideas.\" -- Nils Jacobson, All\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbout Jazz Update\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heble's book is truly outstanding. ...thought provoking and powerful.\" -- Nils Jacobson, \u003cem\u003eAll About Jazz Update\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This exciting and adventurous work exemplifies the trenchancy of the new directions in jazz scholarship. Combining contemporary critical discourses with insights from his personal experience as an innovative arts presenter, \u003cstrong\u003e Ajay Heble \u003c\/strong\u003e challenges scholars, musicians and audiences to move beyond the comfortable narratives so often presented as 'jazz history' to examine the role of the hybrid, mutable, unstable, noisy, boundary-shattering improvised music of our day as both agent and subject of social, cultural, and political change.\" -- George E. Lewis, Department of Music, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Acknowledgement  Introduction  1. The Poetics of Jazz:From Symbolic to Semiotic  2. The Rehistoricizing of Jazz: chicago's Urban Bushmen and the Problem of Representation  3.  Performing Identity: Jazz Autobiography and the Politics of Literary Improvisation 4.  Space is the Place: Jazz, Voice, and Resistance  5. Nice Work if You Can Get it: Women in Jazz  6. Capitulating to Barbarism: Jazz and\/as Popular Culture 7. Up for Grabs: The Ethicopolitical Authority of Jazz Conclusion  Works Cited  Sound and Video Recordings Consulted","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402157728087,"sku":"9780415923484","price":128.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landing-on-the-wrong-note-9780415923484","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}