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Free jazz/black power / by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli ; translated by Grégory Pierrot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carles, Philippe, author.
- Comolli, Jean-Louis, author.
- Series:
- American made music series.
- American Made Music Series
- Standardized Title:
- Free jazz/black power. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Free jazz--History and criticism.
- Free jazz.
- African Americans--History--1964-.
- African Americans.
- Jazz--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- In 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote 'Free Jazz/Black Power', a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. It remains a testimony to the long ignored encounter of radical African American music and French left-wing criticism. Carles and Comolli set out to defend a genre vilified by jazz critics on both sides of the Atlantic by exposing the new sound's ties to African American culture, history, and the political struggle that was raging in the early 1970's. This analysis of jazz criticism and its production is astutely self-aware. It critiques the critics, building a work of cultural studies in a time and place where the practice was virtually unknown.
- Contents:
- Not a black problem, but a white problem. Jazz today ; Economic ownership of jazz ; Cultural colonization ; The blind task of criticism
- Notes on a black history of jazz. Three preliminary remarks ; What the blues say ; Black music before jazz ; In the margins of jazz history
- Contradictions of jazz in a state of freedom. Free fragments ; Music/Politics.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62674-084-4
- OCLC:
- 900889138
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