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Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries
Ake, David, Charles
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Description for Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries
Hardback. What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? This book features writers who look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. Editor(s): Ake, David; Garrett, Charles Hiroshi; Goldmark, Daniel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 5 tables, 4 music examples. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 582.
What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? "Jazz/Not Jazz" explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark have assembled a stellar group of writers to look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More than just a history of jazz and its performers, ... Read more
What is jazz? What is gained - and what is lost - when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? "Jazz/Not Jazz" explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions and aesthetics, have rarely appeared in traditional histories of the form. David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark have assembled a stellar group of writers to look beyond the canon of acknowledged jazz greats and address some of the big questions facing jazz today. More than just a history of jazz and its performers, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520271036
SKU
V9780520271036
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About Ake, David, Charles
David Ake is Professor and Chair of the Department of Musicology at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami. Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan and the author of Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century, (UC Press). Daniel Goldmark is Associate Professor of Music at Case Western ... Read more
Reviews for Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries
"A sterling collection of writings... There are no misfires. This collection will be useful for decades to come... Highly recommended."
G. A. Akkerman, University of South Carolina Upstate Choice "it will be interesting to observe the impact that this collection of unusual, entertaining and thought-provoking perspectives has on jazz studies."
Alison Eales Popular Music
G. A. Akkerman, University of South Carolina Upstate Choice "it will be interesting to observe the impact that this collection of unusual, entertaining and thought-provoking perspectives has on jazz studies."
Alison Eales Popular Music