1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996210324803316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to jazz / / edited by Mervyn Cooke and David Horn [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-139-81618-7

1-139-00223-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to music

Disciplina

781.65

Soggetti

Jazz - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-376) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; pt. 1 A brief chronology of jazz -- The word 'jazz' / Krin Gabbard -- Jazz times. The identity of jazz / David Horn -- The jazz diaspora / Bruce Johnson -- The jazz audience / Jed Resula -- Jazz and dance / Robert P. Crease. pt. 2 Jazz practices. ; Jazz as musical practice / Travis A. Jackson -- Jazz as cultural practice / Bruce Johnson -- Jazz improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- Spontaneity and organisation / Peter J. Martin -- Jazz among the classics, and the case of Duke Ellington / Mervyn Cooke. -- pt. 3. Jazz changes. ; 1959, the beginning of beyond / Darius Brubeck -- Free jazz and the avant-garde / Jeff Pressing -- Fusions and crossovers / Stuart Nicholson. -- pt. 4. Jazz soundings. ; Learning jazz, teaching jazz / David Ake -- History, myth, and legend: the problem of early jazz / David Sagar -- Analysing jazz / Thomas Owens. -- pt. 5. Jazz takes. ; Valuing jazz / Robert Walser -- The jazz market / Dave Laing -- Images of jazz / Krin Gabbard.

Sommario/riassunto

The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues



for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778714803321

Autore

Woodard Roger D

Titolo

Greek writing from Knossos to Homer : a linguistic interpretation of the origin of the Greek alphabet and the continuity of ancient Greek literacy / / Roger D. Woodard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1997

ISBN

0-19-770466-2

1-280-45272-2

0-19-535566-0

0-585-38144-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 pages)

Disciplina

481/.1

Soggetti

Greek language - Alphabet

Greek language - Writing

Greek language - Written Greek

Language and culture - Greece - History

Literacy - Greece - History

Written communication - Greece - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Syllabaries; 3 Syllable-Dependent Approaches; 4 Non-Syllable-Dependent Approaches; 5 The Hierarchy of Orthographic Strength; 6 The Alphabet; 7 Cyprus and Beyond; 8 Conclusions; Phonetic Glossary; Symbols; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer examines the origin of the Greek alphabet. Departing from previous accounts, Roger Woodard places the advent of the alphabet within an unbroken continuum of Greek literacy beginning in the Mycenean era. He argues that the creators of the Greek alphabet, who adapted the Phoenician consonantal script, were



scribes accustomed to writing Greek with the syllabic script of Cyprus. Certain characteristic features of the Cypriot script--for example, its strategy for representing consonant sequences and elements of Cypriot Greek phonology--were transferred to the new