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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779284203321

Titolo

Jazz/Not Jazz : The Music and Its Boundaries / / David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Ira Goldmark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

1-280-49188-4

9786613587114

0-520-95135-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 pages)

Disciplina

781.65

Soggetti

Jazz - History and criticism

Jazz -- History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Incorporation and Distinction in Jazz History and Jazz Historiography -- 2. Louis Armstrong Loves Guy Lombardo -- 3. The Humor of Jazz -- 4. Creating Boundaries in the Virtual Jazz Community -- 5. Latin Jazz, Afro- Latin Jazz, Afro- Cuban Jazz, Cubop, Ca rib be an Jazz, Jazz Latin, or Just . . . Jazz: The Politics of Locating an Intercultural Music -- 6. Jazz with Strings: Between Jazz and the Great American Songbook -- 7. "Slightly Left of Center": Atlantic Rec ords and the Problems of Genre -- 8. The Praxis of Composition- Improvisation and the Poetics of Creative Kinship -- 9. The Sound of Struggle: Black Revolutionary Nationalism and Asian American Jazz -- 10. Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Vocal Ensembles within Jazz Education -- 11. Crossing the Street: Rethinking Jazz Education -- 12. Deconstructing the Jazz Tradition: The "Subjectless Subject" of New Jazz Studies -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

What is jazz? What is gained-and what is lost-when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply



connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark have assembled a stellar group of writers to look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More than just a history of jazz and its performers, this collections seeks out those people and pieces missing from the established narratives to explore what they can tell us about the way jazz has been defined and its history has been told.