Alan Stanbridge

Rhythm Changes

Jazz, Culture, Discourse

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Produktbeschreibung

Rhythm Changes: Jazz, Culture, Discourse explores the history and development of jazz, addressing the music, its makers, and its social and cultural contexts, as well as the various discourses - especially those of academic analysis and journalistic criticism - that have influenced its creation, interpretation, and reception.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781032251905
• ISBN-10: 1032251905
• Artikelnr.: 71909097

Autorenporträt

ALAN STANBRIDGE is an Associate Professor in Music and Culture at the University of Toronto, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Persistence of Authenticity 1. The Challenge of the Past: Jazz
Parody
and Jazz Discourse They Brainwash and Teach You Hate: From Parody to Protest It Ain't Necessarily So: From Caricature to Celebration In a Sentimental Mood: From Ridicule to Romanticism Notes 2. A Few of My Favorite Things: Analyzing Jazz
Interpreting Irony
Assessing Value "Saying Something": Coltrane
Irony
and 'My Favorite Things' "White Things
" Black Things
and a Few Other Things "Undeniable Qualities": Homage
Value-For
and Ideological Hegemony "Myriad Subtleties
" Bebop Parody
and the Question of Context "We're in the Money": Irony
Complexity
and Social Normativity Notes 3. My Only Sunshine: Jazz
Country Music
George Russell
and Musical Meaning Way Out West: From Cowhand Sonny to Dangerous Davey Cowboy Favorites: Jazz Meets Country Music You Are My Sunshine: From Singing Cowboys to Gassed Soulsters Happy Endings: George Russell Meets 'You Are My Sunshine' Sunshine Redux: From Kiddies Songs to Kitchen Appliances Notes 4. Divine Revelations: Keith Jarrett
Acoustic Authenticity
and Romantic Genius Fun With Toys: Miles
Electricity
and Acoustic Relief A Blazing Forth of a Divine Will: Blank Slates
Claptrap
and Emphysemic Goats Body and Soul: Sacred Space
the State of Grace
and Everyday Ecstasy Blessed With Genius: The Flame Itself
the Man from Porlock
and the Heavenly Ostrich Play On
Play On: Robert Bly
the Wild Man
and the Neglected Male Psyche Touch the Soil: Elemental Instruments
Indian Country
and the Noble Savage Notes 5. The Body Electric: Music
Machines
and Mechanical Reproduction I Sing the Body Electric: Aesthetic Materialism
Technological Humanism
and Electrical Grandmothers Spark of Being: Frankenstein
Electricity
and the Merging of Text and Form Undervaluing Overdubbing: Jazz
Spontaneity
and Recording Studio Trickery Essential and Divine: Faithful Fidelity
Analogue Authenticity
and "exactly what was played" Preserving Spontaneity: Free Improvisation
Live Performance
and the Paradox of Sound Recording Notes 6. Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? African American Exceptionalism
European Stereotypes
and the Jazz Studies Debate Getting To Know You: The 'Afrological
' the 'Eurological
' and the Illogical The Anxiety of Affluence: Race
Class
and European 'Privilege' A Pan-European Conspiracy? Cultural Nationalism
Nativist Politics
and Foreign Competitors The Emancipation Problem: African American Models and German Belligerents A Delicate
Nuanced Approach? Humour
Improvisation
and Composer-Centred Music Networks of Power: Whiteness
Erasure
and World Harmony Postscript: Say It Loud
I'm British and I'm Proud Notes References Discography Filmography

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Introduction: The Persistence of Authenticity



1. The Challenge of the Past: Jazz, Parody, and Jazz Discourse

They Brainwash and Teach You Hate: From Parody to Protest

It Ain't Necessarily So: From Caricature to Celebration

In a Sentimental Mood: From Ridicule to Romanticism

Notes

2. A Few of My Favorite Things: Analyzing Jazz, Interpreting Irony, Assessing Value

"Saying Something": Coltrane, Irony, and 'My Favorite Things'

"White Things," Black Things, and a Few Other Things

"Undeniable Qualities": Homage, Value-For, and Ideological Hegemony

"Myriad Subtleties," Bebop Parody, and the Question of Context

"We're in the Money": Irony, Complexity, and Social Normativity

Notes

3. My Only Sunshine: Jazz, Country Music, George Russell, and Musical Meaning

Way Out West: From Cowhand Sonny to Dangerous Davey

Cowboy Favorites: Jazz Meets Country Music

You Are My Sunshine: From Singing Cowboys to Gassed Soulsters

Happy Endings: George Russell Meets 'You Are My Sunshine'

Sunshine Redux: From Kiddies Songs to Kitchen Appliances

Notes

4. Divine Revelations: Keith Jarrett, Acoustic Authenticity, and Romantic Genius

Fun With Toys: Miles, Electricity, and Acoustic Relief

A Blazing Forth of a Divine Will: Blank Slates, Claptrap, and Emphysemic Goats

Body and Soul: Sacred Space, the State of Grace, and Everyday Ecstasy

Blessed With Genius: The Flame Itself, the Man from Porlock, and the Heavenly Ostrich

Play On, Play On: Robert Bly, the Wild Man, and the Neglected Male Psyche

Touch the Soil: Elemental Instruments, Indian Country, and the Noble Savage

Notes

5. The Body Electric: Music, Machines, and Mechanical Reproduction

I Sing the Body Electric: Aesthetic Materialism, Technological Humanism, and Electrical Grandmothers

Spark of Being: Frankenstein, Electricity, and the Merging of Text and Form

Undervaluing Overdubbing: Jazz, Spontaneity, and Recording Studio Trickery

Essential and Divine: Faithful Fidelity, Analogue Authenticity, and "exactly what was played"

Preserving Spontaneity: Free Improvisation, Live Performance, and the Paradox of Sound Recording

Notes

6. Can Blue Men Sing the Whites? African American Exceptionalism, European Stereotypes, and the Jazz Studies Debate

Getting To Know You: The 'Afrological,' the 'Eurological,' and the Illogical

The Anxiety of Affluence: Race, Class, and European 'Privilege'

A Pan-European Conspiracy? Cultural Nationalism, Nativist Politics, and Foreign Competitors

The Emancipation Problem: African American Models and German Belligerents

A Delicate, Nuanced Approach? Humour, Improvisation, and Composer-Centred Music

Networks of Power: Whiteness, Erasure, and World Harmony

Postscript: Say It Loud, I'm British and I'm Proud

Notes

References

Discography

Filmography