People Get Ready

The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Herausgeber: Heble, Ajay

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Jazz Festival and a founding editor of the online peer-reviewed journal Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation. Rob Wallace is a teacher, writer, and musician. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is the author of Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism. As a percussionist, he can be heard on recordings from the pfMentum and Ambiances Magnétiques record labels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780822354086
• ISBN-10: 082235408X
• Artikelnr.: 36265117

Autorenporträt

Ajay Heble and Rob Wallace, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. "People Get Ready": The Future of Jazz is Now! / Ajay Heble
and Rob Wallace 1
Part I. Beyond Categories: Histories and Mysteries
1. "Now is the Time": Voicing against the Grain of Orality / Aldon Lynn
Nielsen 31
2. The Antiquity of the Avant-Garde: A Meditation on a Comment by Duke
Ellington / John Szwed 44
3. Listening Trust: The Everyday Politics of George Lewis's "Dream Team" /
Julie Dawn Smith and Ellen Waterman 59
4. Jeanne Lee's Voice / Eric Porter 88
5. Kick Out the Jazz! / Rob Wallace 111
Part II. Crisis in New Music? Vanishing Venues and the Future of
Experimentation
6. Days of Breads and Roses / Marc Ribot 141
7. Subsidy, Advocacy, Theory: Experimental Music in the Academy, in New
York City, and Beyond / Tamar Barzel 153
8. Subsidizing the Experimental Muse:Rereading Ribot / John Brackett 166
9. One Musician Writes about Creative-Music Venues in Toronto / Scott
Thomson 175
10. Somewhere There: Contemporary Music, Performance Spaces, and Cultural
Policy / Alan Stanbridge 184
Part III. Sound Check
The Jazz Photography of Thomas King 197
Part IV. Get Ready: Jazz Futures
11. Black Jazz in the Digital Age / Greg Tate 217
12. Improvising Digital Culture / DJ Spooky and Vijay Iyer 225
13. Ancient to the Future: Celebrating Forty Years of the AACM / Douglas
Ewart, Nicole Mitchell, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Matana Roberts,
Jaribu Shahid, Wadada Leo Smith, and Corey Wilkes 244
14. People, Don't Get Ready: Improvisation, Democracy, and Hope / Tracy
McMullen 265
Works Cited 281
Contributors 295
Index 301