Saying something : jazz improvisation and interaction / Ingrid Monson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monson, Ingrid T. (Ingrid Tolia)

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Criticism and interpretation.

Jazz.

Improvisation (Music).

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages : music ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996]

Summary:

This fresh look at the neglected rhythm section in jazz ensembles shows that the improvisational interplay among drums, bass, and piano is just as innovative, complex, and spontaneous as the solo. Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and culture. Through interviews with Jaki Byard, Richard Davis, Sir Roland Hanna, Billy Higgins, Cecil McBee, and others, she develops a perspective on jazz improvisation that has "interactiveness" at its core: in the creation of music through improvisational interaction, in the shaping of social communities and networks through music, and in the development of cultural meanings and ideologies that inform the interpretation of jazz in twentieth-century African-American and American cultural life. Replete with original musical transcriptions, this broad view of jazz improvisation and its emotional and cultural power will have a wide audience among jazz fans, ethnomusicologists, and anthropologists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.

ISBN:

0226534774

0226534782

OCLC:

34788101