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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819996203321

Autore

Carles Philippe

Titolo

Free jazz/black power / / by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated by Grégory Pierrot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Mississippi : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-62674-084-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

American Made Music Series

Disciplina

781.65089/96073

Soggetti

Jazz - History and criticism

Free jazz - History and criticism

African Americans - History - 1964-

Jazz - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Not a black problem, but a white problem. Jazz today ; Economic ownership of jazz ; Cultural colonization ; The blind task of criticism -- Notes on a black history of jazz. Three preliminary remarks ; What the blues say ; Black music before  jazz ; In the margins of jazz history -- Contradictions of jazz in a state of freedom. Free fragments ; Music/Politics.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote 'Free Jazz/Black Power', a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970's. This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown.