LEADER 05174nam 2201009 a 450 001 9910816420703321 005 20240410062727.0 010 $a1-282-75904-3 010 $a9786612759048 010 $a0-520-92840-7 010 $a1-59734-997-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520928404 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008494 035 $a(EBL)223040 035 $a(OCoLC)54663323 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11209948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281640 035 $a(PQKB)11184728 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC223040 035 $a(DE-B1597)521084 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520928404 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL223040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10050795 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275904 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008494 100 $a20010725d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat is this thing called jazz? $eAfrican American musicians as artists, critics, and activists /$fEric Porter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (442 p.) 225 1 $aMusic of the African diaspora ;$v6 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-21872-8 311 $a0-520-23296-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-382) and index. 327 $aA marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon. 330 $aDespite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of jazz: the formative years of the 1920's and 1930's; the emergence of bebop; the political and experimental projects of the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's; and the debates surrounding Jazz at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Louis Armstrong, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Reggie Workman also feature prominently in this book. The wealth of information Porter uncovers shows how these musicians have expressed themselves in print; actively shaped the institutional structures through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed, and how they aligned themselves with other artists and activists, and how they were influenced by forces of class and gender. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? challenges interpretive orthodoxies by showing how much black jazz musicians have struggled against both the racism of the dominant culture and the prescriptive definitions of racial authenticity propagated by the music's supporters, both white and black. 410 0$aMusic of the African diaspora ;$v6. 606 $aJazz$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican American jazz musicians 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life$y20th century 610 $a1920s. 610 $a1930s. 610 $aafrican american musicians. 610 $aafrican american. 610 $aamerican music. 610 $aanthony braxton. 610 $ablack artists. 610 $ablack musicians. 610 $aclass. 610 $acultural studies. 610 $aduke ellington. 610 $aessay collection. 610 $aexperimental jazz. 610 $aexperimental music. 610 $agender. 610 $ajazz music. 610 $ajazz musicians. 610 $alouis armstrong. 610 $amarion brown. 610 $amusic analysis. 610 $amusic genres. 610 $amusic history. 610 $amusic theory. 610 $amusical. 610 $amusicians. 610 $asocial class. 610 $asocial studies. 615 0$aJazz$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican American jazz musicians. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 676 $a781.65/089/96073 700 $aPorter$b Eric$g(Eric C.)$0707262 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816420703321 996 $aWhat is this thing called jazz$93943160 997 $aUNINA