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Living Space : John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and free jazz, from analog to digital / Michael E. Veal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Veal, Michael E., 1963- author.
- Series:
- Music/culture.
- Music / Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free jazz--History and criticism.
- Free jazz.
- Coltrane, John, 1926-1967--Criticism and interpretation.
- Coltrane, John.
- Davis, Miles--Criticism and interpretation.
- Davis, Miles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "A musical study of free jazz, specifically John Coltrane's controversial "late period" and Miles Davis's long-neglected "Lost Quintet," bringing jazz into dialogue with experimental currents in analysis of architecture and photography"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Through the Looking Glass
- One: "An Efflorescence of Deconstruction": Space, Shape, Surface, and the Urban as Modes of Jazz Consciousness
- Two: Curvilinearity, Swing, and the Spline: The Africanist Grid as a Mode of Jazz Consciousness
- Three: "We No Longer Consider Them Damaged": Distortion as a Mode of Jazz Consciousness
- Four: Living Space: John Coltrane between Worlds
- Five: Electricity Was Just Another Color: Miles Davis between Worlds
- Conclusion: "A Liquid Feeling Emerges": Free Meter and Distortion as Generators of Black Pasts and Futures
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780819500892
- 0819500895
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