Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz StudiesRobert G. O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, Farah Jasmine Griffin Columbia University Press, 2004 - 427 páginas Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of the new jazz studies, jazz is not only a music to define--it is a culture. Considering musicians and filmmakers, painters and poets, the intellectual improvisations in Uptown Conversation reevaluate, reimagine, and riff on the music that has for more than a century initiated a call and response across art forms, geographies, and cultures. Building on Robert G. O'Meally's acclaimed Jazz Cadence of American Culture, these original essays offer new insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story of the music and evaluating its cultural import in the United States and worldwide. Articles contemplating the music's experimental wing--such as Salim Washington's meditation on Charles Mingus and the avant-garde or George Lipsitz's polemical juxtaposition of Ken Burns's documentary Jazz and Horace Tapscott's autobiography Songs of the Unsung--share the stage with revisionary takes on familiar figures in the canon: Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. |
Contenido
The Darby Hicks History of Jazz | 1920 |
Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and the Limits of AvantGarde Jazz | 1938 |
The AACM in New York 197O1985 | 1961 |
A Meditation on Black Womens Vocality | 14 |
The Cultural Politics of the Newport Jazz Festival 19541960 | 41 |
The Ellington Album | 22 |
The Man | 22 |
part 2 | 60 |
Louis Armstrong Bricolage and the Aesthetics of Swing | 137 |
Louis Armstrong Ralph Ellison and Betty Boop | 167 |
Ellington Armstrong and Saying It with Music | 186 |
Amiri Baraka Writes Free Jazz | 201 |
The Literary Ellington | 215 |
Jazz Poetry and Tradition as Creative Adaptation | 246 |
Othering and Communitas in Nathaniel Mackeys Bedouin Hornbook | |
Exploding the Narrative in Jazz Improvisation | |
The Real Ambassadors | 62 |
Preliminary Thoughts on Time Culture and Politics | 77 |
Notes on Jazz in Senegal | 97 |
Revisiting Romare Beardens Art of Improvisation | 122 |
Exploring New Currents in Jazz | |
Contributors | |
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