Noise orders : jazz, improvisation, and architecture / David P. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, David, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and architecture.

Jazz--Analysis, appreciation.

Jazz.

Improvisation (Music).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Noise Orders, David Brown locates jazz music within the broad aesthetic, political, and theoretical upheavals of our time, asserting that modern architecture can be strongly influenced by jazz improvisation. Comparing artists and architects with individuals and groups in jazz-including Piet Mondrian and boogie-woogie, John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk-Brown examines how jazz can provide insight on how to develop dynamic metropolitan environments.

Contents:

Compositional imperatives: Mondrian and boogie-woogie

What is the body supposed to be doing? John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Now's the time: temporalities of Louis Armstrong and Le Corbusier

Function, flexibility, and improvisation: the AACM and Mies Van Der Rohe

Diagrams, conduction, and the contemporary city.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-151) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9595-4

OCLC:

476096120