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This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
Iain Anderson
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This Is Our Music, declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musicians, critics, fans, politicians, and entrepreneurs claimed jazz as a national art form, an Afrocentric race music, an extension of modernist innovation in other genres, a music of mass consciousness, and the preserve of a cultural elite. This original and provocative book explores who makes decisions about the value of a cultural form and on what basis, taking as its example the impact of 1960s free improvisation on the changing status of jazz.
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812220032
SKU
V9780812220032
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About Iain Anderson
Iain Anderson is Professor and Chair of History at Northeastern State University.
Reviews for This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture
"An excellent study of the heyday of one of the most problematic bodies of work in the history of jazz music. . . . Essential."—Choice "This Is Our Music takes us back to that moment between the fifties and the sixties when a new music called free jazz took root in the coffeehouses and nightclubs of New York City, Chicago, ... Read more