Jazz cultures / David Ake.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ake, David Andrew, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz musicians--United States.

Jazz musicians.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]

Summary:

From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to tear down old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities shaped over the course of the twentieth century, exploring the many ways in which jazz musicians and audiences experience and understand themselves, their music, their communities, and the world at large. Revealing the pervasiveness of romantic narratives within jazz criticism, education, and commerce, Jazz Cultures provides wonderful new readings of specific pieces of music and invites readers to question the categories to which these works and their composers have been assigned.

Writing as a professional pianist and composer, the author blends careful historical research with intelligent textual criticism. He looks at evolving meanings, values, and ideals -- as well as the sounds -- that musicians, audiences, and critics carry to and from the various activities they call jazz. Among the compelling topics he discusses is the "visuality" of music: the relationship between performance demeanor and musical meaning.

Contents:

1 "Blue Horizon": Creole Culture and Early New Orleans Jazz 10

2 Jazz Historiography and the Problem of Louis Jordan 42

3 Regendering Jazz: Ornette Coleman and the New York Scene in the Late 1950s 62

4 Body and Soul: Performing Deep Jazz 83

5 Jazz 'Traning': John Coltrane and the Conservatory 112

6 Jazz Traditioning: Setting Standards at Century's Close 146.

Notes:

"Roth Family Foundation, music in America imprint"--P. facing t.p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-208) and index.

ISBN:

0520228871

0520228898

OCLC:

46421924