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People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Ajay Heble
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Description for People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Hardback. Jazz musicians, scholars, and journalists emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and 1970s has continued to animate the avant-garde, Free Jazz, fusion, and other forms of this lively, always-evolving music. Editor(s): Heble, Ajay; Wallace, Robert. Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 photographs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes ... Read more
In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822354086
SKU
V9780822354086
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About Ajay Heble
Ajay Heble is Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at University of Guelph in Ontario. He is the author of Landing On The Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice and a coeditor of The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue. Heble is the founder and artistic director of the Guelph ... Read more
Reviews for People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz Is Now!
"If you thought jazz was dead, think again. As this remarkable collection of essays makes crystal clear, jazz is alive, loud, messy, sprawling, old and wise, born again, and playful. People Get Ready makes an essential contribution to jazz studies, cultural studies, and our increasingly global understanding of modern music. And it demonstrates what discerning readers and listeners already know: ... Read more