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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806814303321

Autore

Heble Ajay <1961->

Titolo

Landing on the wrong note : jazz, dissonance, and critical practice / / Ajay Heble

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-00129-0

1-280-40707-7

0-203-90100-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Disciplina

781.65

Soggetti

Jazz - History and criticism

Jazz - Social aspects

Dissonance (Music)

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 (p. 239-249) and index.

"Sound and video recordings consulted"--p. 251-252.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Landing on the Wrong Note; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Poetics of Jazz: From Symbolic to Semiotic; 2. The Rehistoricizing of Jazz: Chicago's "Urban Bushmen" and the Problem of Representation; 3. Performing Identity: Jazz Autobiography and the Politics of Literary Improvisation; 4. "Space Is the Place": Jazz, Voice, and Resistance; 5. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Women in Jazz: (with Gillian Siddall); 6. Capitulating to Barbarism Jazz: Jazz and/as Popular Culture; 7. Up for Grabs: The Ethicopolitical Authority of Jazz

Conclusion: Alternative Public SpheresWorks Cited; Sound and Video Recordings Consulted; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the clubs, performances, and lives of today's jazz musicians.