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245 04 a| The jazz cadence of American culture /c| edited by Robert G. O'Meally.;

300 a| xvi, 665 pages :b| illustrations, music ;c| 26 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

500 a| "Jazz" appears in large type across title page.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-632) and index.;

505 0 a| pt. 1. What is jazz? -- pt. 2. One nation under a groove, or, The United States of jazzocracy -- pt. 3. Jazz lines and colors : the sound I saw -- pt. 4. Jazz is a dance : jazz art in motion -- pt. 5. Tell the story : jazz, history, memory -- pt. 6. Writing the blues, writing jazz.;

505 0 a| Part 1: What is jazz? Jazz: the word / Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner -- Forward motion: an interview with Benny Golson / Benny Golson and Jim Merod -- Repetition as a figure of black culture / James A. Snead -- Black music as an art form / Olly Wilson -- Remembering Thelonioius Monk: when the music was happening then he'd get up and do his little dance / Quincy Troupe and Ben Riley -- Improvisation and the creative process / Albert Murray -- Part 2: One nation under a groove, or, the United States of jazzocracy. What's "American" about America / John A. Kouwenhoven -- Jazz and the white critic / Amiri Baraka -- Duke Ellington: "Music like a big hot pot of good gumbo" / Wynton Marsalis and Robert G. O'Meally -- Blues to be constitutional: a long look at the wild wherefores of our democratic lives as symbolized in the making of rhythm and tune / Stanley Crouch -- The Ellington programme / Barry Ulanov -- Part 3: Jazz lines and colors: the sound I saw. Art history and black memory: toward a "blues aesthetic" / Richard J. Powell -- Skyscrapers, airplanes, and airmindedness: "the necessary angel" / Ann Douglas -- Profiles: putting something over something else / Calvin Tomkins -- Celebration / Sherry Turner DeCarava -- Black visual intonation / Arthur Jafa -- Improvisation in jazz / Bill Evans -- Part 4: Jazz is a dance: jazz art in motion. Jazz music in motion: dancers and big bands / Jacqui Malone -- Characteristics of negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- African art and motion / Robert Farris Thompson -- Be like Mike? Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire / Michael Eric Dyson -- "Noise" taps a historic route to joy / Margo Jefferson -- Part 5: Tell the story: Jazz, history, memory. Pulp and circumstance: the story of jazz in high places / Gerald Early -- Jazz and American culture / Lawrence W. Levine -- The golden age, time past / Ralph Ellison -- Double V, double-time: bebop's politics of style / Eric Lott -- It jus be's dat way sometim: the sexual politics of women's blues / Hazel V. Carby -- Constructing the jazz tradition / Scott DeVeaux -- Other: from noun to verb / Nathaniel Mackey -- Part 6: Writing the blues, writing jazz. The blues as folk poetry / Sterling A. Brown -- Richard Wright's blues / Ralph Ellison -- Preface to "three plays" / August Wilson -- The function of the heroic image / Albert Murray -- The seemingly eclipsed window of form: James Weldon Johnson's prefaces / Brent Edwards -- Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol / Nathaniel Mackey.;

520 a| Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," this book offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. The editor has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. Focusing mainly on American artistic expression from 1920 to 1970, the editor confronts a long era of political and artistic turbulence and change in which American art forms influenced one another in unexpected ways. Organized thematically, these provocative pieces include an essay considering poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of a recent melding of jazz music and dance, Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. From Stanley Crouch to August Wilson to Jacqui Malone, the plurality of voices gathered here reflects the variety of expression within jazz. The book's opening section sketches the overall place of jazz in America. Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner unpack the word jazz and its register, Albert Murray considers improvisation in music and life, Amiri Baraka argues that white critics misunderstand jazz, and Stanley Crouch cogently dissects the intersections of jazz and mainstream American democratic institutions. After this, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring jazz and the visual arts, dance, sports, history, memory, and literature. Ann Douglas writes on jazz's influence on the design and construction of skyscrapers in the 1920s and '30s, Zora Neale Hurston considers the significance of African-American dance, Michael Eric Dyson looks at the jazz of Michael Jordan's basketball game, and Hazel Carby takes on the sexual politics of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith's blues. This book offers a wealth of insight and information for scholars, students, jazz aficionados, and any reader wishing to know more about this music form that has put its stamp on American culture more profoundly than any other in the twentieth century.;

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The jazz cadence of American culture / edited by Robert G. O'Meally.

Other author	O'Meally, Robert G., 1948- editor.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Columbia University Press, ©1998.
Description	xvi, 665 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Subjects	Jazz--History and criticism. Blues (Music)--History and criticism. African Americans--Music. --History and criticism. African Americans--Music. --History and criticism.

Contents	pt. 1. What is jazz? -- pt. 2. One nation under a groove, or, The United States of jazzocracy -- pt. 3. Jazz lines and colors : the sound I saw -- pt. 4. Jazz is a dance : jazz art in motion -- pt. 5. Tell the story : jazz, history, memory -- pt. 6. Writing the blues, writing jazz.
Contents	Part 1: What is jazz? Jazz: the word / Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner -- Forward motion: an interview with Benny Golson / Benny Golson and Jim Merod -- Repetition as a figure of black culture / James A. Snead -- Black music as an art form / Olly Wilson -- Remembering Thelonioius Monk: when the music was happening then he'd get up and do his little dance / Quincy Troupe and Ben Riley -- Improvisation and the creative process / Albert Murray -- Part 2: One nation under a groove, or, the United States of jazzocracy. What's "American" about America / John A. Kouwenhoven -- Jazz and the white critic / Amiri Baraka -- Duke Ellington: "Music like a big hot pot of good gumbo" / Wynton Marsalis and Robert G. O'Meally -- Blues to be constitutional: a long look at the wild wherefores of our democratic lives as symbolized in the making of rhythm and tune / Stanley Crouch -- The Ellington programme / Barry Ulanov -- Part 3: Jazz lines and colors: the sound I saw. Art history and black memory: toward a "blues aesthetic" / Richard J. Powell -- Skyscrapers, airplanes, and airmindedness: "the necessary angel" / Ann Douglas -- Profiles: putting something over something else / Calvin Tomkins -- Celebration / Sherry Turner DeCarava -- Black visual intonation / Arthur Jafa -- Improvisation in jazz / Bill Evans -- Part 4: Jazz is a dance: jazz art in motion. Jazz music in motion: dancers and big bands / Jacqui Malone -- Characteristics of negro expression / Zora Neale Hurston -- African art and motion / Robert Farris Thompson -- Be like Mike? Michael Jordan and the pedagogy of desire / Michael Eric Dyson -- "Noise" taps a historic route to joy / Margo Jefferson -- Part 5: Tell the story: Jazz, history, memory. Pulp and circumstance: the story of jazz in high places / Gerald Early -- Jazz and American culture / Lawrence W. Levine -- The golden age, time past / Ralph Ellison -- Double V, double-time: bebop's politics of style / Eric Lott -- It jus be's dat way sometim: the sexual politics of women's blues / Hazel V. Carby -- Constructing the jazz tradition / Scott DeVeaux -- Other: from noun to verb / Nathaniel Mackey -- Part 6: Writing the blues, writing jazz. The blues as folk poetry / Sterling A. Brown -- Richard Wright's blues / Ralph Ellison -- Preface to "three plays" / August Wilson -- The function of the heroic image / Albert Murray -- The seemingly eclipsed window of form: James Weldon Johnson's prefaces / Brent Edwards -- Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol / Nathaniel Mackey.
Abstract	Taking to heart Ralph Ellison's remark that much in American life is "jazz-shaped," this book offers a wide range of eloquent statements about the influence of this art form. The editor has gathered a comprehensive collection of important essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life. Focusing mainly on American artistic expression from 1920 to 1970, the editor confronts a long era of political and artistic turbulence and change in which American art forms influenced one another in unexpected ways. Organized thematically, these provocative pieces include an essay considering poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of a recent melding of jazz music and dance, Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. From Stanley Crouch to August Wilson to Jacqui Malone, the plurality of voices gathered here reflects the variety of expression within jazz. The book's opening section sketches the overall place of jazz in America. Alan P. Merriam and Fradley H. Garner unpack the word jazz and its register, Albert Murray considers improvisation in music and life, Amiri Baraka argues that white critics misunderstand jazz, and Stanley Crouch cogently dissects the intersections of jazz and mainstream American democratic institutions. After this, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring jazz and the visual arts, dance, sports, history, memory, and literature. Ann Douglas writes on jazz's influence on the design and construction of skyscrapers in the 1920s and '30s, Zora Neale Hurston considers the significance of African-American dance, Michael Eric Dyson looks at the jazz of Michael Jordan's basketball game, and Hazel Carby takes on the sexual politics of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith's blues. This book offers a wealth of insight and information for scholars, students, jazz aficionados, and any reader wishing to know more about this music form that has put its stamp on American culture more profoundly than any other in the twentieth century.
Local note	Little-314765--305131040768
General note	"Jazz" appears in large type across title page.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-632) and index.
LCCN	98014768
ISBN	0231104480 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0231104499 (pbk. : alk. paper)

The jazz cadence of American culture / edited by Robert G. O'Meally.

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