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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2011
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9781139002233

Book description

The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

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‘… most of the writers in this Companion are academics, and it's hard to fault the obvious passion underlying their diverse points of view.’

Source: BBC Music Magazine

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Contents

  • Frontmatter
    pp i-xxi
  • The word jazz
    pp 1-6
  • Part One - Jazz times
  • 1 - The identity of jazz
    pp 7-32
  • 2 - The jazz diaspora
    pp 33-54
  • 3 - The jazz audience
    pp 55-68
  • 4 - Jazz and dance
    pp 69-80
  • Part Two - Jazz practices
  • 5 - Jazz as musical practice
    pp 81-95
  • 6 - Jazz as cultural practice
    pp 96-113
  • 7 - Jazz improvisation
    pp 114-132
  • 8 - Spontaneity and organisation
    pp 133-152
  • 9 - Jazz among the classics, and the case of Duke Ellington
    pp 153-174
  • Part Three - Jazz changes
  • 10 - 1959: the beginning of beyond
    pp 175-201
  • 11 - Free jazz and the avant-garde
    pp 202-216
  • 12 - Fusions and crossovers
    pp 217-252
  • Part Four - Jazz soundings
  • 13 - Learning jazz, teaching jazz
    pp 253-269
  • 14 - History, myth and legend: the problem of early jazz
    pp 270-285
  • 15 - Analysing jazz
    pp 286-298
  • Part Five - Jazz takes
  • 16 - Valuing jazz
    pp 299-320
  • 17 - The jazz market
    pp 321-331
  • 18 - Images of jazz
    pp 332-346
  • Notes
    pp 347-356
  • Works cited
    pp 357-376
  • Principal musicians cited
    pp 377-388
  • Index
    pp 389-403

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