Cover Image

Uptown conversation : the new jazz studies / edited by Robert G. O'Meally, Brent Hayes Edwards, and Farah Jasmine Griffin.

Show other versions (1)

Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs for Alvin Ailey and Dianne McIntyre; Stanley Crouch stirring his high-powered essays in a room where a drumkit stands at the center: from the perspective of.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: O'Meally, Robert G., 1948- (Editor), Edwards, Brent Hayes (Editor), Griffin, Farah Jasmine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:
Jazz > History and criticism.
Jazz.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Songs of the unsung: the Darby Hicks history of jazz / George Lipsitz
  • "All the things you could be by now": Charles Mingus presents Charles Mingus and the limits of avant-garde jazz / Salim Washington
  • Experimental music in black and white: the AACM in New York, 1970-1985 / George Lewis
  • When Malindy sings: a meditation on black women's vocality / Farah Jasmine Griffin
  • Hipsters, bluebooks, rebels, and hooligans: the cultural politics of the Newport Jazz Festival 1945-1960 / John Gennari
  • Mainstreaming monk: the Ellington album / Mark Tucker
  • The man / John Szwed
  • The real ambassadors / Penny M. Von Eschen
  • Artistic othering in black diaspora musics: preliminary thoughts on time, culture, and politics / Kevin Gaines
  • Notes on jazz in Senegal / Timothy R. Mangin
  • Revisiting Romare Bearden's art of improvisation / Diedra Harris-Kelley
  • Louis Armstrong, Bricolage, and the aesthetics of swing / Jorge Daniel Veneciano
  • Checking our balances: Louis Armstrong, Ralph Ellison, and Betty Boop / Robert G. O'Meally
  • Paris Blues: Ellington, Armstrong, and saying it with music / Krin Gabbard
  • "How you sound??": Amiri Baraka writes free jazz / William J. Harris
  • The literary Ellington / Brent Hayes Edwards
  • "Always new and centuries old": jazz, poetry and tradition as creative adaptation / Travis A. Jackson
  • A space we're all immigrants from: othering and communitas in Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook / Herman Beavers
  • Exploding the narrative in jazz improvisation / Vijay Iyer
  • Beneath the underground: exploring new currents in "jazz" / Robin D.G. Kelley.

Similar Items