Title
Jazz matters [electronic resource] : sound, place, and time since bebop / David Ake.
ISBN
9780520947399 (electronic bk.)
9780520266889
9780520266896
Publication Details
Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 199 p.) : ill.
Call Number
ML3506 .A444 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
781.65/5
Summary
What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his engaging, thoughtful, and stimulating perspective to post-1940s jazz. Ake investigates such issues as improvisational analysis, pedagogy, American exceptionalism, and sense of place in jazz. He uses provocative case studies to illustrate how some of the values ascribed to the postwar jazz culture are reflected in and fundamentally shaped by aspects of sound, location, and time.
Note
"Roth Family Foundation Music in America imprint"--Page preceding t.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Desciption based on print version record.
pt. 1, Sound and time: Being (and becoming) John Coltrane : listening for jazz "subjectivity" ; Musicology beyond the score and the performance : making sense of the creak on Miles Davis's "Old folks" ; Sex mob and the carnivalesque in post-war jazz
pt. 2, Place and time: Race, place, and nostalgia after the counterculture : Keith Jarrett and Pat Metheny on ECM ; Rethinking jazz education ; Negotiating national identity among American jazz musicians in Paris.
