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What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
Eric Porter
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Description for What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
Paperback. This title explores the ideas of African American musicians, analyzing them on the context of meanings circulating around jazz. The text shows how much black musicians have struggled against the definations of racial authenticity and racism in the dominant culture. Series: Music of the African Diaspora. Num Pages: 425 pages, 16 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGJ; HBT; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 624.
Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of ... Read more
Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter overturns this tendency in his creative intellectual history of African American musicians. He foregrounds the often-ignored ideas of these artists, analyzing them in the context of meanings circulating around jazz, as well as in relationship to broader currents in African American thought. Porter examines several crucial moments in the history of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
425
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Music of the African Diaspora
Condition
New
Number of Pages
425
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520232969
SKU
V9780520232969
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About Eric Porter
Eric Porter is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reviews for What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists
"Among the many books on the history of jazz, most document the interpretations of white critics....But now, Eric Porter's brilliant book seeks to trace the ways in which black jazz musicians have made verbal sense of their accomplishments, demonstrating the profound self-awareness of the artists themselves as they engaged in discourse about their enterprise." - Susan McClary, author of Conventional ... Read more