Jazz planet / edited by E. Taylor Atkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkins, E. Taylor (Everett Taylor), 1967-

ebrary, Inc.

Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 292 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2003]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Jazz is typically characterized as a uniquely American form of artistic expression, and narratives of its history are almost always set within the United States. Yet, from its inception, this art form exploded beyond national borders, becoming one of the first modern examples of a global music sensation. "Jazz Planet collects essays that concentrate for the first time on jazz created outside the United States. When happened when this phenomenon met with indigenous musical practices? What debates on cultural integrity did this "American" styling provoke in far-flung places? Did jazz's insistence on individual innovation and its posture as a music of the disadvantaged generate shakeups in national innovation and its posture as a music of the disadvantaged generate shakeups in national identity, aesthetic values, and public morality? through new and previously published essays, "Jazz Planet recounts the music's fascinating journeys to Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. What emerges is a concept of jazz as a harbinger of current globalization, a process that has engendered both hope for a more enlightened and tranquil future and resistance to the anticipated loss of national identity and sovereignty. Essays in this collection describe the seldom-acknowledged contributions non-Americans have made to the art and explore the social and ideological crises jazz initiated around the globe. Was the rise of jazz in global prominence, they ask, simply a result of its inherent charm? Was it a vehicle for colonialism, Cold War politics, and emerging American hegemony? "Jazz Planet provokes readers to quest on the nationalistic bias of most jazz scholarship, and to expand the pantheon of greatjazz artists to include innovative musicians who blazed independent paths.

Contents:

Local heroes

Local politics.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joseph B. Glossberg Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Jazz planet.

ISBN:

1621034445

9781621034445

Publisher Number:

99958347300

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.