What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists (Music of the African Diaspora, 6)
ジャズ音楽家たち自身の文章と発言をたどり、黒人音楽家が批評家・思想家として果たした役割を描き直す研究書。ジャズをめぐる固定観念に挑む。
作品情報
ジャズを演奏だけでなく思想として読み直す。
演奏と批評のあいだに引かれた境界を引き直し、ミュージシャンたちの言葉に思想史としての重みを与える。学術書でありながら、音楽文化の広がりが見える。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- University of California Press
- 発売日
- 2002-01-01
- ページ数
- 441ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 3.05 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780520232969
- ISBN-10
- 9780520232969
- 価格
- 9956 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Arts & Photography/Music/Musical Genres/Ethnic & International/Ethnomusicology
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 jazz: the formative years of the 1920s and 1930s; the emergence of bebop; the political and experimental projects of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s; and the debates surrounding Jazz at Lincoln Center under the direction of Wynton Marsalis. Louis Armstrong, Anthony Braxton, Marion Brown, Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Wadada Leo Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Reggie Workman also feature prominently in this book. The wealth of information Porter uncovers shows how these musicians have expressed themselves in print; actively shaped the institutional structures through which the music is created, distributed, and consumed, and how they aligned themselves with other artists and activists, and how they were influenced by forces of class and gender. What Is This Thing Called Jazz? challenges interpretive orthodoxies by showing how much black jazz musicians have struggled against both the racism of the dominant culture and the prescriptive definitions of racial authenticity propagated by the music's supporters, both white and black.
Eric Porter is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Top jazz writing
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Great writing and excellent insight into the thought processes of some great Jazz artists.
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