Jazz among the discourses [electronic resource] / edited by Krin Gabbard.
The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of disciplines to question and revise conventional methods of writing and thinking about jazz.Challengin...
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1995.
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Table of Contents:
- The jazz canon and its consequences / Krin Gabbard
- "Moldy figs" and modernists : jazz at war (1942-1946) / Bernard Gendron
- Jazz in crisis, 1948-1958 : ideology and representation / Steven B. Elworth
- Other : from noun to verb / Nathaniel MacKey
- Historical context and the definition of jazz : putting more of the history in "jazz history" / William Howland Kenney
- Oral histories of jazz musicians : the NEA transcripts as texts in context / Burton W. Peretti
- The media of memory : the seductive menace of records in jazz history / Jed Rasula
- "Out of notes" : signification, interpretation, and the problem of Miles Davis / Robert Walser
- Critical alchemy : Anthony Braxton and the imagined tradition / Ronald M. Radano
- Ephemera underscored : writing around free improvisation / John Corbett
- Double V, double time : bebop's politics of style / Eric Lott
- Ascension : music and the black arts movement / Lorenzo Thomas.