Civic jazz : American music and Kenneth Burke on the art of getting along / Gregory Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Gregory, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Social aspects.

Jazz.

Music and rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993.

Burke, Kenneth.

Physical Description:

xvi, 194 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Summary:

Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. In much the same way, the American democratic experience is rooted in the interaction of individuals. It is these two seemingly disparate but ultimately thoroughly American conceits that Gregory Clark examines in Civic Jazz. Melding Kenneth Burke's concept of rhetorical communication and jazz music's aesthetic encounters with a rigorous sort of democracy, this book weaves an innovative argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. Thought-provoking, pathbreaking, and featuring a compelling foreword by jazz pianist Marcus Roberts, Clark's harmonic mashup of music and rhetoric will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Setting up

A rhetorical aesthetic of jazz

What jazz is

Where jazz comes from

What jazz does

How jazz works

So what?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226218182

022621818X

9780226218212

022621821X

OCLC:

881208623