Keeping time : readings in jazz history / edited by Robert Walser.
| Other author | Walser, Robert, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. |
| Description | xiv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | First accounts. Sidney Bechet's musical philosophy -- "Whence comes jass?" / Walter Kingsley -- The location of "jass" / New Orleans Times-Picayune -- A "serious" musician takes jazz seriously / Ernest Ansermet -- "A Negro explains 'jazz'" / James Reese Europe -- "Jazzing away prejudice" / Chicago Defender -- The "inventor of jazz" / Jelly Roll Morton -- 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 man who made a lady out of jazz (Paul Whiteman) / 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" / Rudolf Fisher -- The appeal of jazz explained / R.W.S. Mendl -- The thirties. What is swing? / Louis Armstrong -- Looking back at "The jazz age" / Alain Locke -- Don Redman: portrait of a bandleader / Roi Ottley -- 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 -- The forties. "Red music" / Josef Škvorecký -- "From somewhere in France" / Charles Delauney -- Johnny Otis remembers Lester Young -- "A people's music" / Sidney Finkelstein -- "Bop is nowhere" / D. Leon Wolff, Louis Armstrong -- "The cult of bebop" / Dizzy Gillespie -- "The golden age, time past" / Ralph Ellison -- The professional dance musician and his audience / Howard S. Becker -- 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 -- America's "secret sonic weapon" -- "The white Negro" / Norman Mailer -- Louis Armstrong on music and politics -- The sixties. Critical reception of Free Jazz -- "Jazz and the White critic" / LeRoi Jones -- A jazz summit meeting / Playboy -- The seventies. Oral culture and musical tradition / Ben Sidran -- Jazz as a progressive social force / Leonard Feather -- Beyond categories / Max Roach -- The musician's heroic craft / Albert Murray -- Creative music and the AACM / Leo Smith -- The eighties. "America's classical music" / Billy Taylor -- "A rare national treasure" / U.S. Congress -- The neoclassical agenda / Wynton Marsalis -- Soul, craft, and cultural hierarchy / Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock -- "'It jus' be's dat way sometime': the sexual politics of women's blues" / Hazel V. Carby -- Miles Davis speaks his mind -- A music of survival and celebration / Christopher Small -- 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. |
| Abstract | Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, this book lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth. In the end, the focus here remains on how the music works and why people have cared about it. The book will increase one's historical awareness of jazz even as it provokes lively discussion among jazz aficionados, whether in clubs, concert halls, or classrooms. |
| Local note | Little-311560--305131017406V |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-438) and index. |
| LCCN | 97042484 |
| ISBN | 0195091728 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 0195091736 (paper) |