Uptown Conversation The New Jazz Studies
| Other author | O'Meally, Robert |
| Other author | Edwards, Brent Hayes |
| Other author | Griffin, Farah Jasmine |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press Jackson : Perseus Distribution [Distributor] |
| Description | 544 p. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation Building on Robert G. O'Meally's acclaimed Jazz Cadence of American Culture, Uptown Conversation asserts that jazz is not only a music to define, it is a culture. Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted, Romare Bearden's beautifully turned stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre, Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drum-kit stands at the center: from musicians and filmmakers to painters and poets, jazz has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures. Original essays cover jazz historiography, the political stakes of telling the story of the music, and its cultural import. Articles contemplate the music's experimental wing-George Lewis's much needed overview of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Salim Washington's unraveling of the very notion of an avant garde, or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns's documentary Jazz and Horace Tapscott's Pan-Afrikan Arkestra-and revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong. The book also considers how settings outside the United States have transformed the music. Acclaim for The Jazz Cadence of American Culture "If race keeps us apart, jazz brings us together, as Ralph Ellison pointed out when he called American life 'jazz shaped.' These thirty-five essays . . . testify that Ellison was on to something." -Washington Post Book World "Impressive and thoughtfully assembled." -Jazz Times "Outstanding." -Publishers Weekly |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780231508360 |
| ISBN | 0231508360 (E-Book) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780231508360 |
| Stock number | 00006325 |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |