What Is This Thing Called Jazz?

African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists

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Eric Porter

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Music of the African Diaspora

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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 labour 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

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Eric Porter is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Release date Australia

January 31st, 2002

Author

Eric Porter

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General (US: Trade)

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16 b-w photographs

Pages

425

Series

Music of the African Diaspora

Dimensions

152x229x30

ISBN-13

9780520232969

Product ID

1817309

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