Jazz among the discourses / edited by Krin Gabbard.
| Other author | Gabbard, Krin, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 1995. |
| Description | viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Jazz canon and its consequences / Krin Gabbard -- "Moldy figs" and modernists: jazz at war (1942-1946) / Bernard Gendron -- Jazz in crisis, 1948-1958: ideology and representation / Steven B. Elworth -- Other: from noun to verb / Nathaniel MacKey -- Historical context and the definition of jazz: putting more of the history in "jazz history" / William Howland Kenney -- Oral histories of jazz musicians: the NEA transcripts as texts in context / Burton W. Peretti -- The media of memory: Seductive menace of records in jazz history / Jed Rasula -- "Out of notes": signification, interpretation, and the problem of Miles Davis / Robert Walser -- Critical alchemy: Anthony Braxton and the imagined tradition / Ronald M. Radano -- Ephemera underscored: writing around free improvisation / John Corbett -- Double V, double time: bebop's politics of style / Eric Lott -- Ascension: music and the black arts movement / Lorenzo Thomas. |
| Abstract | The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, this book brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz. Challenging "official jazz histories," the contributors to this volume view jazz through the lenses of comparative literature; African American studies; music, film, and communication theory; English literature; American studies; history; and philosophy. With uncommon rigor and imagination, their essays probe the influence of various discourses--journalism, scholarship, politics, oral history, and entertainment--on writing about jazz. Employing modes of criticism and theory that have transformed study in the humanities, they address questions seldom if ever raised in jazz writing: What are the implications of building jazz history around the medium of the phonograph record? Why did jazz writers first make the claim that jazz is an art? How is an African American aesthetic articulated through the music? What are the consequences of the interaction between the critic and the jazz artist? How does the improvising artist navigate between chaos and discipline? Along with its companion volume, Representing Jazz, this versatile anthology marks the arrival of jazz studies as a mature, intellectually independent discipline. Its rethinking of conventional jazz discourse will further strengthen the position of jazz studies within the academy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 94041051 |
| ISBN | 0822315815 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780822315810 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0822315963 (paper : acid-free paper) |
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