Jazz consciousness : music, race, and humanity / Paul Austerlitz.
| Author/creator |
Austerlitz, Paul, 1957- |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, ©2005. |
| Description | xxii, 260 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Music/culture Music/culture. ^A390481 |
| Contents | Jazz consciousness in the United States -- Kente cloth to jazz: a matrix of sound -- Machito and Mario Bauzá: latin jazz in the U.S. mainstream -- Ambivilence and creativity: the jazz tinge in Dominican music -- "Rhythm-music": jazz in Finland -- My teacher is the human heart: music of Milford Graves. |
| Abstract | Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, the author argues that jazz--and the world-view or consciousness that surrounds it--embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to embrace all of humanity. He examines jazz in relation to race and national identity in the U.S. and then broadens his scope to consider jazz within the African diaspora and in very different transnational scenes, from the Dominican Republic to Finland. Based on extensive fieldwork, the book explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. One of the central chapters is devoted to the history of the groundbreaking Latin jazz band of Machito and his Afro-Cubans, who were inspired by the dancing of both Harlemites and Jewish mamboniks, while the final chapter includes an extensive interview with the seminal drummer Milford Graves, one of the author's mentors, who holds that music profoundly influences our biorhythms and indeed shapes our thoughts. |
| Local note | Little--305140056550 |
| Bibliography note | Includes videography and discography (pages 223-225), bibliographical references (pages 227-244) , and index. |
| LCCN | 2005010561 |
| ISBN | 9780819567819 |
| ISBN | 0819567817 |
| ISBN | 9780819567826 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0819567825 (pbk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 9780819567819 |
| Standard identifier# | 9780819567826 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Music | Music Stacks | ML3918.J39 A97 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |