Keeping time : readings in jazz history / edited by Robert Walser.

Other author Walser, Robert editor.
Format Book
EditionSecond edition.
PublicationNew York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Copyright Date©2015
Descriptionxvi, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Jazz--History and criticism.

Contents Part 1: First Accounts -- Sidney Bechet's Musical Philosophy -- "Whence Comes Jass?" / Walter Kingsley -- The Location of "Jass" -- A "Serious" Musician Takes Jazz Seriously / Ernest Ansermet -- "A Negro Explains 'Jazz'" / James Reese Europe -- Jazzing Away Prejudice -- The "Inventor of Jazz" / Jelly Roll Morton -- Part 2: The Twenties -- Jazzing Around the Globe / Burnet Hershey -- "Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?" / Anne Shaw Faulkner -- Jazz and African Music / Nicholas G.J. Ballanta-Taylor -- The Sexual Politics of Women's Blues / Hazel B. Carby -- The Man Who Made a Lady Out of Jazz / Hugh C. Ernst -- "The Jazz Problem" / The Etude -- "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" / Langston Hughes -- A Black Journalist Criticizes Jazz / Dave Peyton -- "The Caucasian Storms Harlem" / Rudolph Fisher -- The Appeal of Jazz Explained / R.W.S. Mendl -- Part 3: The Thirties -- What Is Swing? / Louis Armstrong -- Looking Back at "The Jazz Age" / Alain Locke -- Defining "Hot Jazz" / Robert Goffin -- An Experience in Jazz History / John Hammond -- On the Road with Count Basie / Billie Holiday -- Jazz at Carnegie Hall / James Dugan and John Hammond -- Duke Ellington Explains Swing -- Jazz and Gender During the War Years / Down Beat -- It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't in the History Books / Sherrie Tucker -- Part 4: The Forties -- "Red Music" / Josef Škvorecký -- "From Somewhere in France" / Charles Delaunay -- Johnny Otis Remembers Lester Young -- A People's Music / Sidney Finkelstein -- "Bop Is Nowhere" / D. Leon Wolff and Louis Armstrong -- To Be or Not to Bop / Dizzy Gillespie -- The Golden Age, Time Past / Ralph Ellison -- The Professional Dance Musician and His Audience / Howard S. Becker -- Part 5: The Fifties -- Jazz in the Classroom / Marshall W. Stearns -- A Jazz "Masterpiece" / André Hodeir -- Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation / Gunther Schuller -- Beneath the Underdog / Charles Mingus -- Psychoanalyzing Jazz / Miles D. Miller -- An Appeal to the Vatican / Paul Hofmann -- America's "Secret Sonic Weapon" -- The White Negro / Norman Mailer -- Louis Armstrong on Music and Politics -- Part 6: The Sixties -- Critical Reception of Free Jazz -- "Jazz and the White Critic" / LeRoi Jones -- A Jazz Summit Meeting -- Part 7: The Seventies -- The Scale Syllabus / Jamey Aebersold -- Beyond Categories / Max Roach -- The Musician's Heroic Craft / Albert Murray -- Creative Music and the AACM / Wadada Leo Smith -- Jazz Pop: A "Failed Art Music" Makes Good / Robert Palmer -- Part 8: The Eighties -- "America's Classical Music" / William "Billy" Taylor -- "A Rare National Treasure" / U.S. Congress -- Soul, Craft, and Cultural Hierarchy / Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock -- A Music of Survival and Celebration / Christopher Small -- Part 9: The Nineties -- Who Listens to Jazz? -- Free Jazz Revisited -- Ring Shout, Signifyin(g), and Jazz Analysis / Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. -- Ferociously Harmonizing with Reality / Keith Jarrett -- Constructing the Jazz Tradition / Scott DeVeaux -- Local Jazz / James Lincoln Collier -- "Out of Notes": The Problem of Miles Davis / Robert Walser -- A Revolutionary Music? / Fred Wei-han Ho -- Improvised Music After 1950: Afrological and Eurological Perspectives / George E. Lewis -- Part 10: The Second Century -- Explaining the Art of a Trio / Brad Mehldau -- Three Polemics on the State of Jazz / Stanley Crouch -- Exploding the Narrative / Vijay Iyer -- The Jazz Left / Herman S. Gray -- "Resistance Is Futile!" / Sarah Rodman -- The Nordic Tone in Jazz / Stuart Nicholson -- Now Who Listens to Jazz? -- The Hidden Histories of Ken Burns's Jazz George / Lipsitz.
Abstract Featuring more than seventy thought-provoking selections drawn from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, this second edition brings to life the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied more than 100 years of jazz history. This unique volume gives voice to a wide range of perspectives which stress different reactions to and uses of jazz, both within and across communities, enabling readers to see that jazz is not just about names, dates, and chords, but rather about issues and ideas, cultural activities, and experiences that have affected people deeply in a great variety of ways. Selections include contributions from well-known figures such as Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis; from renowned writers including Langston Hughes, Norman Mailer, and Ralph Ellison; and from critics and historians ranging from Gunther Schuller and Christopher Small to Sherrie Tucker and George Lipsitz. Filled with insightful writing, Keeping Time aims to increase historical awareness, to provoke critical thinking, and to encourage lively classroom discussion as students relive the intriguing story of jazz.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013048713
ISBN9780199765775
ISBN0199765774

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