Beyond sketches of Spain : Tete Montoliu and the construction of Iberian jazz / Benjamin Fraser. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraser, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Spain--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Montoliu, Tete--Criticism and interpretation.

Montoliu, Tete.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Few musicians shaped Iberian jazz more than pianist Vicenç 'Tete' Montoliu i Massana (1933-97). Fascinated by the modernist aesthetics of mid-century jazz, Montoliu was known for a carefully crafted mix of lyricism and dissonance, a penchant for discordant crashes, and a development of highly original compositions. 'Beyond Sketches of Spain' explores the artist's life, musical production, and international reception within a cultural studies framework.

Contents:

Cover

Beyond Sketches of Spain

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Selected Tete Montoliu Vinyl Discography

Note on Theodor W. Adorno and Jazz Criticism

Introduction

Tete's Musical Biography

Anti-​Jazz Attitudes and Transnational Encounters in Spain

Jazz as Gathering in Difference

1. Sketches of Flamenco

Sketches of Spain, Francoism, and Regressive Listening

Vibing with Lionel Hampton on Jazz Flamenco (1956)

To The European All Stars 1961 and Beyond

2. The Urban Soundscapes of Modern Jazz

Jazz and the City

Tete and the Speed, Spontaneity, and Shifting Conditions of Urban Modernity

Europe's Urban Jazz Circuits, Kirk in Copenhagen (1963), and Lliure Jazz (1969)

3. Performing Catalanism

Jazz Age Barcelona and the First International Jazz Festival

Tete's Catalanism, A tot jazz (1965), and the Nova Cançó

Catalan Jazz Composition and Catalonian Folksongs (1977)

4. Blues, Braille, and the Metanarrative of Blindness

Disability, Impairment, and Tete's Musical Education

Blues Traditions, Sighted Culture, and Disability in Modern Music

Album Covers and the Visual Business of Listening to Jazz

Epilogue: The Jazz Artist in Transnational Popular Culture

Notes

References

Discography and Further Listening

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 2, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Fraser, Benjamin Beyond Sketches of Spain

ISBN:

0-19-754931-4

0-19-754929-2